Re: What's current status of KDE in Sid?
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 07:46:22PM -0700, Hereon wrote: So, it seems you are saying that there are some extra steps (besides what Paul indicated) that are _required_ to be done to get KDE installed on Sid, in consideration of these problems in kdebase kdemultimedia. If that is true, what are those extra steps? A basic KDE system (most apps) can be installed in sid today, with only one required workaround (detailed in the FAQ at http://wiki.debian.net/DebianKDE). This workaround is to install a library package which was removed from the archive just after KDE was last built. I am not aware of any workaround to install the kdemultimedia meta-package in current sid. Hopefully Chris will upload a fixed package before long. Paul Cupis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: What's current status of KDE in Sid?
--- Ricardo Galli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which doesn't mean it's in a good status. But the opposite. Ricardo - You say that it is in the opposite of good status. Do you mean: 1) That some extra steps beyond normal are required to _install_ it? (As Paul indicated.) Or, Yes, there are some wrong dependencies in kdebase and kdemultimedia (it seems due to a bad NMU) Oh. Too bad. :( But, good to be aware of. :) So, it seems you are saying that there are some extra steps (besides what Paul indicated) that are _required_ to be done to get KDE installed on Sid, in consideration of these problems in kdebase kdemultimedia. If that is true, what are those extra steps? 2) That even when installed, using the extra steps, KDE on Debian (Sid) is not functioning properly? The Sid version is perfectly usable, with some annoyances. Thanks. :) __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
What's current status of KDE in Sid?
Looking at the debian kde wiki page, it's ambiguous what the status is. 1) There is no status indicator. 2) There are instructions for installing for sid, which would seem to imply that it is available. 3) An rc bug (qt-x11-free) is mentioned, but this doesn't necessarily imply that a kde _install_ would fail. 4) latest info indicates a 68k build problem, but, again, this doesn't necessarily imply that a kde install would fail (for my system: intel x86) From the debian kde mailing list I see: Re: Big trouble with libqt3 From: Linus Gasser http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2003/debian-kde-200310/msg00019.html reading the rest of the list you can see that there are quite some troubles for now with kde in unstable. Personally I'm running kde on stable, and it works very well. On my pentium system w/ a minimal Sid + minimal gnome (gnome installed cause kde wouldn't install) I get: # apt-get install kde-core Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... 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. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kde-core: Depends: kdebase but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages =Questions: 1) Can I somehow get or force to get a minimal working KDE system on my Sid now? 2) Perhaps by pinning or something installing from testing, or stable? 3) If there's no way to get a minimal Sid install working right now, what is the eta for when KDE will be installable into Sid? (And, what are the major tasks needed for that to happen?) Thanks for all the great work! :) PS: Putting the ETA on the debian kde wiki would be a wonderful addition to that page! :) __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
Re: What's current status of KDE in Sid?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 October 2003 07:55, Hereon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) There are instructions for installing for sid, which would seem to imply that it is available. It is available. [snip] On my pentium system w/ a minimal Sid + minimal gnome (gnome installed cause kde wouldn't install) I get: # apt-get install kde-core Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... 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. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kde-core: Depends: kdebase but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages =Questions: 1) Can I somehow get or force to get a minimal working KDE system on my Sid now? Currently there is a little bug whre kdebase in sid is 'uninstallable'. To fix this, the wiki says: == (2003/09/01) ksysguardd (and therefore kdebase and therefore kde-core) is not installable in sid at the moment. This is due to libsensors-1debian1 not being in the archive any more (bug #210276) You will need to wait for a new kdebase to uploaded OR download this and install it using dpkg -i == Regards, Paul Cupis - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAj9+irEACgkQIzuKV+SHX/mUTACcCGh3MpE1xa3Typ+vzOKR6yLC uQYAnRt0ZxuLLww6m6spajZIkfF49tVi =yvUS -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: What's current status of KDE in Sid?
On Saturday 04 October 2003 10:53, Paul Cupis shaped the electrons to shout: 2) There are instructions for installing for sid, which would seem to imply that it is available. It is available. Which doesn't mean it's in a good status. But the opposite. -- ricardo galli GPG id C8114D34 http://mnm.uib.es/~gallir/
