David, Install Red Hat, Mandrake or SuSE - it's a lot less complicated and they properly support KDE 3.
On Monday 30 September 2002 02:32, David Pastern wrote: > Well that was shortlived...this is the result of apt-get update: > > maxus:/home/maxus# apt-get update > Hit http://people.debian.org ./ Packages > > Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages > > Hit http://people.debian.org ./ Release > > Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages > > Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release > > Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release > > Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Sources > > Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Packages > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Release > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Sources > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Release > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > maxus:/home/maxus# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back > ark karm kate kcalc kcharselect kchart kcoloredit kcron kdebase kdepasswd > kdf kdict kdm kedit kfind kformula kfract kghostview khexedit kiconedit > kit > kivio kjots kmail knewsticker knode knotes koffice koffice-libs konqueror > konsole kontour korganizer korn koshell kpackage kpaint kpresenter kruler > kscreensaver ksirc ksnapshot kspread ksysv ktimer kugar kuser kview kword > secpolicy > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded. > > So........I ran apt-get upgrade with the following messages: > > maxus:/home/maxus# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back > ark karm kate kcalc kcharselect kchart kcoloredit kcron kdebase kdepasswd > kdf kdict kdm kedit kfind kformula kfract kghostview khexedit kiconedit > kit > kivio kjots kmail knewsticker knode knotes koffice koffice-libs konqueror > konsole kontour korganizer korn koshell kpackage kpaint kpresenter kruler > kscreensaver ksirc ksnapshot kspread ksysv ktimer kugar kuser kview kword > secpolicy > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded. > > So I then tried apt-get dist-upgrade, which reading the man page for > apt-get states: > > dist-upgrade > dist-upgrade, in addition to performing the func� > tion of upgrade, also intelligently handles chang� > ing dependencies with new versions of packages; > apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, > and it will attempt to upgrade the most important > packages at the expense of less important ones if > necessary. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains > a list of locations from which to retrieve desired > package files. > > Now this is what is said by my Debian system when I run the apt-get > dist-upgrade command: > > maxus:/home/maxus# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > kab kde kdebase kdebase-audiolibs kdebase-doc kdebase-libs kdelibs3 > kdelibs3-bin kdepim-libs kpm libarts libkdenetwork1 libkmid libkonq3 > The following NEW packages will be installed: > kaddressbook kalarmd kappfinder karbon kcontrol kdcop kdebase-bin > kdebugdialog kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4 kdeprint kdesktop > khelpcenter > khotkeys kicker kioslave klipper kmenuedit konqueror-nsplugins kpager > kpersonalizer ksmserver ksplash ksysguard ktip kwin kxkb libart-2.0-2 > libarts1 libarts1-qt libasound2 libcupsys2 libkcal2 libkdenetwork2 > libkgantt0 libkonq4 libqt3 libqt3-mt libsensors1 python2.2 > 49 packages upgraded, 41 newly installed, 14 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 45.6MB/51.5MB of archives. After unpacking 40.6MB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > I answered yes to this, and it asked me to provide cdrom disk 1, and at > this point I got nervous. Why? Note that where it says the following > packages will be REMOVED it says kdelibs3. Is that not for kde 3? Or is > that also present for kde 2.2. Looking at the package lists on the Debian > site, it does have a kdelibs3 for stable, so i'm wondering if all is ok, > and I can provide the said cdrom and let it read it and do its work. After > my previous troubles i'm just very nervous and hesitant and untrusting of > it all. > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Pastern > To: Thomas Schoepf; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: 30/09/2002 11:17 > Subject: RE: 178 days and counting > > > Ignore post - I just tried removing the stable main and it's working > now. > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Pastern > To: Thomas Schoepf; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: 30/09/2002 11:14 > Subject: RE: 178 days and counting > > > mm well as I am stubborn [I hate losing, especially to a goddamn stupid > machine] - i've reinstalled debian (to ensure that anything that *may* > have > been inadvertently broken was fixed) and i'm going to give kde another > try. > I've edited my sources.list file to show: > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-5 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-4 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-3 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-2 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 > (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > > deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./ stable main > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main > deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > I have no idea why the cd stuff is showing as unstable - I *did* > download > stable. I am 100% positive on this. Is this how it should be?? > Anyways...after updating sources.list I run: > > apt-get update > > And it errors out, with this following error message: > > maxus:/etc/apt# apt-get update > E: Malformed line 15 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (Absolute > dist) > > What have I done wrong? It looks fine to my eye (and reading a previous > post from (I think it was) Thomas indicates that it just needs to be > main. > > Dave > > PS I also tried: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./ main > > and that didn't work either. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Schoepf > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: 27/09/2002 5:38 > Subject: Re: 178 days and counting > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 01:36:16PM -0400, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./ > > > > It appears to be what I want. That looks like what I did, though, and > > there > > > were still libraries that were required and only available from > > woody/unstable > > Use the deb source written above. The packages there will work with > woody (=stable) without requiring any libs from testing or unstable. > > Bye > Thomas > -- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- KDE Proof Reading Team KDE GB English Translation Team
