Greetings, I recently started exploring Debian. I installed Woody and after a day or so upgraded to Sarge. While exploring the available packages I eventually upgraded to kernel 2.4.24 and shortly after that installed xearth. While monitoring the progress of the apt-get install xearth I saw some disturbing lines indicating kde was being removed along with most of the kde support/program packages. I have kdm as the default display manager but when I log in I no longer have the option to have the kde desktop. I removed xearth, but the damage was done. If I do an apt-get install kde now, I get the following errors- ----------------------------- # apt-get install kde 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: Depends: kdelibs3 but it is not installable Depends: libarts but it is not installable or libarts-alsa but it is not installable or libarts-bin but it is not installable Depends: libkmid but it is not installable or libkmid-alsa but it is not installable or libkmid-bin but it is not installable Depends: kdebase but it is not going to be installed or kdebase3 but it is not installable Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not installable or kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable Depends: kdebase-libs but it is not installable or kdebase3-libs but it is not installable Depends: kdebase-doc but it is not installable or kdebase3-doc but it is not installable Depends: kab but it is not installable Depends: kpm but it is not installable Depends: kfract but it is not installable Depends: koffice but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages ----------------------------- When I do a dpkg -l I see there is a kdelibs4 installed and there is the rc indicator for kdelibs3. So, I'm guessing apt removed kdelibs3 when it installed kdelibs4, although when this happened I don't know. I did an apt-get update then tried getting kde again. No good. I suppose it's possible that the support packages kde has listed as dependencies have been upgraded but kde itself is still looking for the earlier package revisions. However, it's far more likely I'm just doing something wrong here since I've been running Debian a whole 4 days now... Any suggestions from those more experienced? I'll be happy to provide any further information but don't be shy about giving explicit instructions. :) Thanks in advance, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]