On 10/16/05, Benjamin Green <ben at bristolwireless.net> wrote: > > > KDE, qt and the whole kaboodle (including kaboodle itself) have been > updated since the last mepis release. When you ask for scribus, things > need to be removed to satisfy it's dependancies. You will be able to > re-install all of KDE (3.4.2) and Koffice (1.3.5) after that, if you use > the debain sid at least, but it might not all be plain sailing anyway, > things have changed a lot since the last mepis release. I can't vouch for > the state of testing. You might be able to get less removals by > specifieing packages to also install, e.g. 'apt-get install scribus kde'. > That last release of MEPIS was from before the current release of debian > stable (that is when sarge was testing and etch was just a twinkle), so > things have moved on a lot since then.
Wow, you really put me onto the right track, but I did things slightly differently. After reading your message, and before doing anything else, I went and checked synaptic and found that, indeed, KDE 3.4.2 was sitting there, available for upgrade. I simply upgraded, and Scribus upgraded without a peep. Foolish me, all this time I believed the propaganda that apt-get (and all related package managers) would automatically install whatever was required (if it was available). So when Scribus wouldn't upgrade, I never thought that the dependancy it needed was there for the asking. Actually, I can sort of understand it--the dependancy is that libqt3 that gets updated by the KDE package--too convoluted for apt-get to figure out, I suppose. I REALLY appreciate your wise advice! And for anyone else that runs into this, upgrading KDE first works just as well as what you suggested. (And I installed the 1.3cvs as well.) John -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20051016/bf3ce7a6/attachment.html
