[kde-linux] Need Help installing KDE on Debian

[Mark Phillips]

On Thursday 12 October 2006 10:17 pm, Andrew Walbran wrote:
> I have installed sarge on several machines, and had no problems installing 
> KDE.

It worked in the past on new installs, but not now from apt.
> 
> What exactly seems to be broken? Have you run 'aptitude update' (or 'apt-get 
> update') recently?

After running apt-get update

beagle:/usr/src/madwifi-0.9.3/madwifi# apt-get install kde
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kde: Depends: kdeaddons but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdeartwork but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I tried apt-get install kde kdeaddons kdeartwork snd so on, and the 
dependancies became too much to type. 
> 
> By the way, if this is just a personal machine I would suggest either 
> upgrading to etch (testing) or using Kubuntu instead, as sarge is rather out 
> of date. OTOH, I have heard that etch is supposed be becoming stable at the 
> end of this year.

It etch is moving toward stable, then perhaps I will do an upgrade.

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Mark Phillips
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