thank you all for your time. i finally found out how to downgrade
packages by downloading them manually from the web ubuntu dapper package
download. i then used dpkg -i to install them.
i didnt know that apt-get and synaptics couldnt do downgrades. somehow
these packages were too high in version n
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Encrypted# apt-cache policy libpoppler1-qt
libpoppler1-qt:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.5.1-0ubuntu7
Version table:
0.5.1-0ubuntu7 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Encrypted#
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Encrypted# apt-cache p
did you read the sources.list which i sent you or did you just read the
COMMENTED OUT lines which mention automatix.
i know youre trying to help and im grateful but if you had looked you
would have noticed that my sources.list contains the same entries as yours.
to prove this point i did as you s
it doesnt sound right to be forced to remove ubuntu-desktop which is
what removing libpoppler1 means...
id rather wait for a fix...i shouldnt have to downgrade libpoppler1
which is a dependency for ubuntu to install kubuntu, should i?
John Vivirito wrote:
> if update and upgrade dont work for you
of course i did an apt-get update...dont see how apt-get upgrade should
be relevant to this issue but i did one anyway...
still does not work. the dependency problem runs like this
kubuntu-desktop depends kdegraphics-kfile-plugins
kdegraphics-kfile-plugins depends libpoppler1-qt
libpoppler1-qt de
thanks john but theres no country code. heres my /etc/apt/sources.list
i even disabled backports...
i tried with force option "apt-get -f" and no change.
i cant remove libpoppler1-qt since this is precisely the package which
wont install and is causing the problem in the first place...
in short
thanks but could you be a little bit more verbose...
im using official repositories...what exactly am i meant to do...
do you mean i should wait until changes are propogated???
Hobbsee wrote:
> works on both ubuntu dapper and edgy. Please update your mirrors if you
> are still having trouble.
>
It was happening in dapper 6.06, with official repos, after doing
apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. It only worked after I
uninstalled the offending packages and forced the install to an older
version.
On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 18:23 +, John Vivirito wrote:
> What version of Ubuntu does thi
