On 03/18/12 08:55, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:15:10 -0400 > Colleen Beamer <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> All of you guys that are more experienced and technical than I am will >> probably laugh at me. However .... >> >> Today, I wanted to update my computer. I got all kinds of messages >> related to kde stuff. One my one, I unmerged the offending packages >> and added the line to my package.keywords file so that an upgrade of a >> package masked by keyword would be installed. >> >> However, activitymanager can't be reinstalled because there isn't an >> upgrade to 4.8.1. Since I went about things the way I did, I can't >> get this package installed because everything else is upgraded to >> 4.8.1 and activitymanager's latest version is 4.7.4. > > I believe activitymanager is now part of kactivities. > > So just unmerge activitymanager and let the ebuilds figure it out. > > You probably have activitymanager in world so portage tries to > explicitly pull it in. > > Yes, I have activity manager in world, but I've unmasked all kde packages for version 4.8.1 and because of that, I can't get activitymanager installed because the latest verion for that is only 4.7.4 and I get told kactivities-4.8.1 blocks activitymanager.. I can get into KDE after my upgrade, but I can't move windows around, nor close or resize them. So I assume activitymanager is somehow needed.
Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
