I've been using dselect to upgrade KDE2 from unstable ever since I discovered
that KDE2 was available. Today after doing an update, and seeing that
the 'kde' package has moved from 2.2.9 to 2.2.11, I get a huge list of
dependancy violations, and this explanation text:
kde depends on kdelibs3 (>= 2.2.2-1)
* kde depends on libarts (>= 2.2.2-1), libarts-alsa (>= 2.2.2-1) or libarts-bin
* libarts-bin does not appear to be available
* kde depends on libkmid (>= 2.2.2-1), libkmid-alsa (>= 2.2.2-1) or libkmid-bin
* libkmid-bin does not appear to be available
kde depends on kdebase (>= 2.2.2-1)
kde depends on kdebase-audiolibs (>= 2.2.2-1)
kde depends on kdebase-libs (>= 2.2.2-1)
kde depends on libkonq3 (>= 2.2.2-1)
kde depends on libkdenetwork1 (>= 2.2.2-1)
kde depends on libmimelib1 (>= 2.2.2-1)
kde depends on konqueror (>= 2.2.2-1)
kde depends on kate (>= 2.2.2-1)
kde depends on konsole (>= 2.2.2-1)
kde depends on kscreensaver (>= 2.2.2-1)
* kde depends on libarts-mpeglib (>= 2.2.2-1) or libarts-mpeglib-cvs
* libarts-mpeglib-cvs does not appear to be available
The suggested recourse is to uninstall 'kde' and leave everything else in
place (everything else is installed already too). Clearly I have dorked
up my system beyond dpkg's ability to resolve the dependancies, although
the only thing I ran was "apt-get update"...
The *'d lines are of interest:
1) I have libarts, libkmid, and libarts-mpeglib all installed. Perhaps
those don't satisfy the deps?
2) I would try to install libarts-alsa and libkmid-alsa, but the -alsa
versions conflict with the non-alsa versions, and removing the non-alsa
versions automatically removes most of the rest of KDE.
3) What's with the "does not appear to be available" complaints?
4) What hoops must I jump through to get kde upgradable again?
When I use 'Q' to force dselect to shut up and do what I've selected,
it automatically deselects 'kde' from the list of packages (..."and 1
not upgraded"). Maybe that's why it's called "dselect", it "de-selects"
things for you. :-)
Phil
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