-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 April 2003 07:03 am, Penn Gwynne wrote: > I am fairly (re)new to Debian. I had Potato in its early days, but > played with Gentoo then Redhat 8 to get a feel for other distros. > > Ultimately I reinstalled Debian a couple of weeks ago from the 3.0r1 CDs > and of course got KDE 2.2. I want to use KDE specifically, but KMail > from KDE 2.2 would not work with my ISP which requires a password for > SMTP. > > After scanning a couple of threads in debian-user I got brave and went to > www.kde.org where I added "deb > http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.1/Debian stable main" to my > sources.list. Took me a bit to figure out how to actually get KDE 3.1.1. > (Didn't realize it was "apt-get install kdm" and not "apt-get upgrade".) > So now I have KDE 3.1.1 and love it and this mail is being typed by > KMail. > > I see problems though. I tried to install koffice and get errors. Here > is an extract of the terminal spew. > > koffice: Depends: koffice-libs but it is not going to be installed > Depends: kchart but it is not going to be installed > > Later I tried to install xmmsarts and got the same sort of thing: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > xmmsarts: Depends: libarts-alsa (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but it is not going to > be installed or libarts (>= 4:2.2.2-1) > > I assume all of this is because my system is now in sort of a "split" > mode; stock Woody except for KDE. > > Any advice on how to resolve this? Do I need to upgrade to Sarge or > (ugh) Sid? Or is it primarily my newness to apt-get and how to force an > install of a particular version of a package. > > Thanks, > /Pen
I use an additional source for koffice. I find it helpful to use dselect or aptitude to help resolve depends. deb http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2.1/Debian/woody ./ - -- Greg Madden -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jy6Pk7rtxKWZzGsRAkEnAJ9EWE7H2NOIRhKIa8U+ADgaX+zO7QCgilKB sFW3teQJPok0wHimTZcQnDw= =fpGO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----