On a whim, I grabbed the Alioth packages and gave the new KDE a whirl. I wiped out my development environment in so doing. The dist-upgrade took down a huge number of -dev packages. It looked like it was going to balance out trading this for that and come out OK in the end, so I went ahead and did it anyway. I probably shouldn't have.
At this point I'm stuck trying to get kdelibs4-dev reinstalled. It won't go because libqt3-mt-dev is uninstallable. This, in turn, is uninstallable because of a tangle of broken X-related dependencies. It's a real mess. I tried adding experimental to the brew, but it didn't help. I'm pretty much stuck at this point, since I can't dist-upgrade back. I could restore yesterday's backup, but I prefer moving forward. It looks like X switched from XFree86 to X.Org, and it also looks like QT has switched from libqt3-mt to libqt3c102-mt. However, libqt3-mt-dev >= 3.3.3 is a dependency of the Alioth kdelibs4-dev, and there's no libqt3c102-mt-dev either. The following packages have unmet dependencies: kdelibs4-dev: Depends: libarts1-dev (>= 1.4.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libopenexr-dev (>= 1.2.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libqt3-mt-dev (>= 3.3.3) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxrender-dev but it is not going to be installed And it's not installable: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: xlibs-static-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxrandr-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxmu-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libx11-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxt-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: xlibmesa-gl-dev but it is not going to be installed or libgl-dev Depends: xlibmesa-glu-dev but it is not going to be installed or libglu1-mesa-dev but it is not going to be installed or libglu-dev Depends: libxft-dev but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxrender-dev but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxcursor-dev but it is not going to be installed I can't install the other kdelibs4-dev dependencies either. More X stuff: #apt-get install libarts1-dev libopenexr-dev libxrender-dev [...] The following packages have unmet dependencies: libarts1-dev: Depends: libqt3-mt-dev (>= 3.3.3) but it is not going to be installed libopenexr-dev: Depends: xlibmesa-gl-dev but it is not going to be installed or libgl-dev Depends: xlibmesa-glu-dev but it is not going to be installed or libglu-dev libxrender-dev: Depends: libx11-dev but it is not going to be installed So this is pretty much fubared. I need help getting out of this mess so I can get back to work on Rosegarden. I had planned to do a little hacking this weekend. Oops. Oh well, I do know better than to go get ultra experimental bleeding edge stuff and play with it on my main box. Bad Silvan, bad! -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]