Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-08 Thread Bob Proulx
David R. Litwin wrote: So, why have I now written such a long message? Well, I feel obliged to explain my self. (I also apologise if my Drastic sounded a bit... Drastic. But, it is a good word. And I do love words.) :-) Earlier in this thread was written the following: KDEVER=$(dpkg

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-07 Thread Jan Schledermann
David R. Litwin wrote: I think I actually know what the problem is: Debian Sarge is telling apt-get (or aptitude) to install these two packages: kdeedu-data and konq-plugins. However, both of these packages have been replaced (by kdebase-data and kdelibs-data respectively). So, what I

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-07 Thread David R. Litwin
I don't think that your assessment of the problem is correct, as I have all 3 packages installed: kdebase-data4:3.4.0-pre3kde base data kdeedu-data 4:3.4.0-pre2shared data for the edutainment pkg konq-plugins4:3.4.0-pre2plug-ins for konq snip

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-07 Thread Bob Proulx
David R. Litwin wrote: Jan Schledermann wrote: In your case you may want to force the installation of kdeedu-data and konq-plugins by doing dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/kdeedu-data dpkg -i -force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/konq-plugins apt-get install (or apt-get -f

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-07 Thread David R. Litwin
The problem is that some files are contained in two different packages. By forcing an installation of a package with an overlapping file that file is now overwritten. The other package also thinks it owns that file. That is an inconsistent state. (And off the top if my head I don't know

Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-06 Thread David R. Litwin
On 01/08/05, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have upgraded KDE (mostly). There is the problem. I put the Alioth repository in my source.list and proceeded to do an apt-get dist-upgrade. This gave me KDE 3.4.1; but only those things which I already had. So, I did apt-get install kde.

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-06 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: On 01/08/05, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have upgraded KDE (mostly). There is the problem. I put the Alioth repository in my source.list You've gone beyond the official Debian repositories; expect breakage. but there are two problems: You might want to

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-06 Thread David R. Litwin
You've gone beyond the official Debian repositories; expect breakage. I installed kde from Alioth once before and it worked perfectly. But, I understand that I should expect some breakage, despite KDE now being at 3.4.2. But, some times, a bit of risk is needed in life, yes? 1. You might try

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-06 Thread Bob Proulx
David R. Litwin wrote: Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/kdeedu-data_4%3a3.3.2-3_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/konq-plugins_4%3a3.3.2-4_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I think the problem is here:

Re: Upgrading KDE

2005-08-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:18:08AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: I have upgraded KDE (mostly). There is the problem. I put the Alioth repository in my source.list and proceeded to do an apt-get dist-upgrade. This gave me KDE 3.4.1; but only those things which I already had. So, I did apt-get

Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread David R. Litwin
I have upgraded KDE (mostly). There is the problem. I put the Alioth repository in my source.list and proceeded to do an apt-get dist-upgrade. This gave me KDE 3.4.1; but only those things which I already had. So, I did apt-get install kde. It downloaded all of the packages, but there are two

Re: upgrading kde

2005-05-13 Thread roberto
--- hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Of course, you have to make sure you add a line in /etc/apt/sources.list that includes testing and/or unstable and/or experimental (alioth), then 'apt-get update'. Then use 'apt-get install kde/testing' to install kde-3.3.2 (or use aptitude, if you

Re: upgrading kde

2005-05-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
roberto wrote: --- hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Of course, you have to make sure you add a line in /etc/apt/sources.list that includes testing and/or unstable and/or experimental (alioth), then 'apt-get update'. Then use 'apt-get install kde/testing' to install kde-3.3.2 (or use

Re: upgrading kde

2005-05-11 Thread hacker
Of course, you have to make sure you add a line in /etc/apt/sources.list that includes testing and/or unstable and/or experimental (alioth), then 'apt-get update'. Then use 'apt-get install kde/testing' to install kde-3.3.2 (or use aptitude, if you prefer). bye On 5/10/05, roberto [EMAIL

upgrading kde

2005-05-10 Thread roberto
Hello, i want to upgrade kde 3.1 to some newer release via aptitude but if i make u i do not find it among upgradable packages, only among installed ones. How can i achieve this? Thankx Roberto ___ Nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: E' molto piĆ¹

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-12 Thread James Vahn
{replying late to a message in linux.debian.user} On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote: I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but apt is giving me fits. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just overlooking. When I type the command

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-12 Thread downtime null
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 01:47, Alan Chandler wrote: One thing to try is aptitude. Its a text based. but cursor controlled front end to apt. You can use this to wander round the dependency tree looking to see which packages will not install and why (or which will not and why). aptitude i

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-12 Thread Douglas Ward
downtime null wrote: in my very bried testing, everything seems to be up to date and in working order now. I remember that, in 2002/3 when KDE 3.x was first released in Debian, there were problems for some users moving from 2.2-3.x, or kde.org packages - official Debian packages; almost all of

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-11 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello list! On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote: I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but apt is giving me fits. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just overlooking. When I type the command 'apt-get -f install kde', I get [...]

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-11 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Jason Rennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing you could try: 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. That *should* bring your entire system up-to-date with the current Sarge. Jason Jason, Have you tried it yourself? I had a terrible experience with it and would not recommend it; many

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-11 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:15:49PM -0600, downtime null wrote: I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but apt is giving me fits. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just overlooking. When I type the command 'apt-get -f install kde', I get : Sorry, but the

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-11 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 19:15, downtime null wrote: Hello Debian Users! Let me start by saying that I am new to Debian, not Linux. I'm not familiar with some of the conventions and tools specific to Debian. I switched to Debian because I've always heard great things about its package

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-11 Thread John L Fjellstad
Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you tried it yourself? I had a terrible experience with it and would not recommend it; many packages got downloaded but did not automatically install due to the maze of dependencies. Efforts to force them to install broke the whole system and I

upgrading KDE

2004-11-10 Thread downtime null
Hello Debian Users! Let me start by saying that I am new to Debian, not Linux. I'm not familiar with some of the conventions and tools specific to Debian. I switched to Debian because I've always heard great things about its package management and I know that it uses binary packages (as opposed

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote: Hello Debian Users! Let me start by saying that I am new to Debian, not Linux. I'm not familiar with some of the conventions and tools specific to Debian. I switched to Debian because I've always heard great things about its

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-10 Thread Jason Rennie
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:15:49PM -0600, downtime null wrote: I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but apt is giving me fits. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just overlooking. When I type the command 'apt-get -f install kde', I get : This might be a dumb

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-10 Thread downtime null
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 20:22, Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote: Hello Debian Users! Let me start by saying that I am new to Debian, not Linux. I'm not familiar with some of the conventions and tools specific to Debian. I switched to Debian

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-10 Thread Jason Rennie
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:24:24PM -0600, downtime null wrote: I'm currently running KDE 2.2.2 as reported by dpkg. I have a ton of packages that are being held back though. I could possibly track down the problem by manually adding dependencies to the command line, but that defeats having a

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 11 November 2004 03:24, downtime null wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 20:22, Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote: ... I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but apt is giving me fits. I'm sure it's something

upgrading kde?

2001-07-23 Thread Rodolfo Canet
Hi all Which package should I apt-get install to get the newest kde? (kde?, kdebase?, etc...) Thanks.. -- Rodolfo

Re: upgrading kde?

2001-07-23 Thread Mathias De Belder
Which package should I apt-get install to get the newest kde? (kde?, kdebase?, etc...) apt-get install task-kde

upgrading kde?

2001-07-23 Thread Rodolfo Canet
Hi all Which package should I apt-get install to get the newest kde? (kdebase, etc...) Thanks.. -- Rodolfo

Re: upgrading kde?

2001-07-23 Thread Andy Saxena
On Monday July 23 2001 06:26, Rodolfo Canet wrote: Hi all Which package should I apt-get install to get the newest kde? (kdebase, etc...) Thanks.. 02:38pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/perl-programming 536 $ dpkg -l *kde* | grep ^ii ii kdeartwork-sty 2.2-beta1-1widget styles released with KDE