This is a bit of a wild guess because you did not say which unofficial KDE3 packages you are attempting to use or what the rest of your system configuration is (debian version, in particular). I'm going to reply at length in the hopes that many lurking newbies may benefit from a post that hits a broad variety of topics involved with installing KDE3. I do not particularly consider myself an expert, but I offer what I can.
I recall having to pull several packages, in particular library packages, from unstable and sort out multiple dependency problems when I installed KDE3 on my woody system. This is because KDE3 is not yet officially in Debian, and even if it were, it would be unstable or testing, yielding many of the same dependency problems for someone installing on a Debian 3.0 stable system. KDE3 is a huge software package and there _are_ going to be issues when installing on woody. Use KDE3 packages built _for_ woody, which have shown up since I did my upgrade :), or you're going to need some libraries from unstable. It seems likely that you do not have unstable in your apt sources.list, so add it. But a word of caution: it seems that the typical route with KDE3 is to add unstable to the sources.list and let dselect or apt-get pull virtually all of unstable down in the process of KDE3 ;). However, besides using woody packages, there is another method; you can run a mixed unstable/testing/stable system by using pinning and setting the default distribution as detailed in the APT HOWTO. I prefer this because I do not want certain parts of the system to be upgraded to unstable. However, I had to explicitly tell apt-get to upgrade to unstable libraries necessary for KDE3 via "apt-get -t unstable install [package_name]". Which meant that I had to compare version numbers, etc. manually. My final advice, again not knowing for sure what exactly you're trying to do: since you are confused about how to resolve the version conflict between zlib1g and zlib1g-dev, *find and use the woody-based unofficial KDE3 packages*. Hopefully this will go fixed...but be warned that yes, there are going to be genuine packaging bugs, and you're going to have to get around them as best you can. KDE3 has not been subjected yet to the rigors of the Debian process. :) But, if you are as specific as possible when writing to the list, the problems will be resolved and you'll have a working KDE3 install. Good luck. On Tuesday 01 October 2002 07:13 am, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote: > I apt-getted KDE3 on it.Now when I am trying to run dselect it complain > that there is some version confjict about zlib1g and zlib1g-dev and also > some other packages I don't know what can I do? Is it a bug or something > that can be solved. Could anybody help me please? ---------------------------- David Richmond Harvard 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: DavidTigre201 2205 Harvard Yard Mail Center Cambridge, MA 02138-7512
