Mikael, Thank you for the suggestion and reference. However, it seems to me that the situation at hand is different from the one described in the reference - there is no package in the apt archive that would be over-written by the installation. Actually, the OS (kubuntu 10.10) was installed fairly recently and no earlier version of pyside has been installed in this partition of the hdd.
Also, the --force option, necessary as it may be sometimes, endangers the integrity of the OS. The python-pyside "is a metapackage for all modules." If it functioned as intended, all or at least most of pyside packages would have been installed in one hit. I did try to install a few individual packages with Synaptic just to see if that would work. The following are the messages in response of my attempt to mark the packages for installation: ******************* python-pyside.qtxml: Depends: python-pyside.qtcore but it is not going to be installed Depends: libshiboken0.5 (>=0.5.1) but 0.5.0-0ubuntu1 is to be installed python-pyside.qtcore: Depends: libshiboken0.5 (>=0.5.1) but 0.5.0-0ubuntu1 is to be installed ******************* They seem to indicate that for shiboken the available package is version 0.5, but the required package is version >= 0.5.1. Perhaps that is the reason for failure to install? Regretfuly I conclude that the "easy installation" of binaries is broken and to install pyside on kubuntu/ubuntu one may have to compile from the source. Alternative is keep on guessing what may or may not be broken. Thank you for responding to my query. OldAl. On Saturday 04 December 2010 13:47:53 Mikael Lammentausta wrote: > It looks like you have conflicting packages. You should have removed the > old pyside before upgrading, but how did you know that? > > You need to install manually, by force, the new python-pyside package. > Read here: > http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2006/04/16/dpkg-error-trying-to-overwrite- > x-which-is-also-in-package-y/ Locate the new deb package from dpkg cache, > and use "dpkg -i --force-overwrite <pyside.deb>" > > Algis Kabaila kirjoitti 4.12.2010 kello 4.36: > > Hi, > > > > I came to grief trying the easy installation of binaries from > > ppa:pyside/ppa. I wonder where I've gone wrong? Or, perhaps, I should go > > for the "bleeding edge" and build the pyside again? > > > > After getting the keys and updating repositories, the following dialog > > took place: > > > > *********************************** > > a...@supremo:~$ sudo apt-get install python-pyside > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > > or been moved out of Incoming. > > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > python-pyside : Depends: python-pyside.phonon (>= 0.4.2-0pyside1) but it > > is not going to be installed > > > > Depends: python-pyside.qtcore (>= 0.4.2-0pyside1) but it > > is > > > > not going to be installed > > > > Depends: python-pyside.qtdeclarative (>= 0.4.2-0pyside1) > > but > > > > it is not going to be installed > > > > Depends: python-pyside.qtgui (>= 0.4.2-0pyside1) but it > > is > > > > not going to be installed > > > > Depends: python-pyside.qthelp (>= 0.4.2-0pyside1) but it > > is > > > > not going to be installed > > > > Depends: python-pyside.qtnetwork (>= 0.4.2-0pyside1) but > > it > > > > is not going to be installed > > > > Depends: python-pyside.qtopengl (>= 0.4.2-0pyside1) but > > it is > > > > not going to be installed > > > > Depends: python-pyside.qtscript (>= 0.4.2-0pyside1) but > > it is > > > > not going to be installed > > > > Depends: python-pyside.qtsql (>= 0.4.2-0pyside1) but it > > is > > > > not going to be installed > > > > Depends: python-pyside.qtsvg (>= 0.4.2-0pyside1) but it > > is > > > > not going to be installed > > > > Depends: python-pyside.qtuitools (>= 0.4.2-0pyside1) but > > it > > > > is not going to be installed > > > > Depends: python-pyside.qtwebkit (>= 0.4.2-0pyside1) but > > it is > > > > not going to be installed > > > > Depends: python-pyside.qtxml (>= 0.4.2-0pyside1) but it > > is > > > > not going to be installed > > E: Broken packages > > a...@supremo:~$ > > *********************************** > > > > ak is my username and supremo is (immodest) name of my PC. Where do I go > > from here? > > > > OldAl. --- Algis Kabaila, MEng Sc, Ph D http://akabaila.pcug.org.au _______________________________________________ PySide mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openbossa.org/listinfo/pyside
