FYI, Cheese <http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/> is a GNOME webcam application without hellish dependencies. It works perfectly fine in my KDE environment.
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 23:54, Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:19:53PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> In trying to install Digikam 1.7 on Kubuntu 10.10 I got myself into > >> dependency hell. I was installing some Natty packages with dpkg. > > > > Why would you do that? > > > > Because I had it working in a previous distro, and my Digikam database > is now the 1.7 version. > > > > Try aptitude. Its resolver may be smart enough to offer you some other > > options. > > > > I've been through about twenty of aptitude's suggestions, they all > involve removing some 200 packages such as Firefox and Plasma. > > > > BTW: 'aptitude -f' is something you should not use. It's not the > > equivalent of 'apt-get -f'. The equivalent of 'apt-get install -f' is > > normally 'aptitude install' > > > > Oh, that's good to know. Thanks! I know that yum's -f is "force" but > apt-get's -f is "fix". It was bad to assume that aptitude's -f would > be as that of apt-get! > > > > Also try the the option '--dry-run' of aptitude / apt-get to get a list > > of packages it wants to remove. > > > > No need, aptitude tells me what it wants to remove anyway. > > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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