Hi, I am trying to install KDE 4.2 on lenny. (I made backups and am aware that things might go bad. I wanted to try it anyway.) So, I followed theshttp://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html#contente instructions:
http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html#content Here are the relevant files: ------------------------- t60[~]$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # Security deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free # Main deb http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free # deb http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/Debian/ lenny main contrib non-free # Sid -- KDE4 deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free # deb http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ sid main # deb http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/Debian/ sid main contrib non-free # Experimental -- KDE4 deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free # deb http://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/debian/ sid main # deb http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/Debian/ sid main contrib non-free # Multimedia deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main # Volatile #deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib t60[~]$ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=lenny Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=sid Pin-Priority: 300 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 101 ------------------------------ Before installing KDE 4.2, I decided to check if pinning would work, but "aptitude dist-upgrade" (before installing anything from Sid or Experimental) wants to upgrade most (all?) packages: ------------------------------ t60[~]$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are BROKEN: libavcodec52 The following NEW packages will be installed: consolekit{a} dnsmasq-base{a} esound-clients{a} geoip-database{a} gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg{a} [snip] 571 packages upgraded, 86 newly installed, 24 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 667MB of archives. After unpacking 165MB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: [snip] ----------------------------------- Can any one shed some light? Thanks in advance, Luis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org