apt-get -- automatically resolve dependencies when installing KDE3

[Robert Bamler]

Hello,

I'm afraid, but I still need help for my Linux system. Please note that I'm
completely new to Linux.

After setting sources.list as described on the KDE-website I have removed
all KDE2 packages (at least I hope I have) with dselect. I then have tryed
to reinstall KDE with dselect but this did not work. So I decided to use
APT to install KDE3 as described in
[url]http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-install[/url]

The page says that "APT will check the dependencies and install the needed
packages" if the package that is to be installed depends on other packages.
So I type at the prompt:

apt-get install kdebase

But this produces the output that can be seen at the end of this message.
I've found a discussion on the web where the install procedure I used
worked:
[url]http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/26/2003/07/1/68399[/url]

Can anyone please help me and tell me why the installation doesn't work on
my machine? What do I have to do in order to get apt-get to automatically
resolve dependency problems?

I'm looking forward to your help,
Robert


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The output of "apt-get install kdebase" was:

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
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:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdebase: Depends: kappfinder (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to
be installed
Depends: kate (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: kcontrol (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: kdebase-bin (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to
be installed
Depends: kdebase-kio-plugins (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: kdeprint (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: kdesktop (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: kfind (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: khelpcenter (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to
be installed
Depends: kicker (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: klipper (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: kmenuedit (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to
be installed
Depends: konqueror-nsplugins (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: konqueror (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to
be installed
Depends: konsole (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: kpager (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: kpersonalizer (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going
to be installed
Depends: ksmserver (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to
be installed
Depends: ksplash (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: ksysguard (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to
be installed
Depends: ktip (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: kwin (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: libkonq4 (>= 4:3.1.3-0woody1) but it is not going to be
installed

[Alan Connor]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:18:01 +0200, Robert Bamler <robert.bamler@gmx.de> wrote:


You might try apt-get update and then run it again.

Are you sure you have sources.list correct? It's touchy.


Alan C


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[Joerg Morbitzer]

Robert Bamler wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm afraid, but I still need help for my Linux system. Please note that
> I'm completely new to Linux.
>
> After setting sources.list as described on the KDE-website I have removed
> all KDE2 packages (at least I hope I have) with dselect. I then have tryed
> to reinstall KDE with dselect but this did not work. So I decided to use
> APT to install KDE3 as described in
> [url]http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-install[/url]
>
> The page says that "APT will check the dependencies and install the needed
> packages" if the package that is to be installed depends on other
> packages. So I type at the prompt:
>
> apt-get install kdebase
>
> But this produces the output that can be seen at the end of this message.
> I've found a discussion on the web where the install procedure I used
> worked:
> [url]http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/26/2003/07/1/68399[/url]
>
> Can anyone please help me and tell me why the installation doesn't work on
> my machine? What do I have to do in order to get apt-get to automatically
> resolve dependency problems?
>
> I'm looking forward to your help,
> Robert
>

Hi Robert,

as far as I know KDE3 is currently coming with Debian-unstable (sid) only.
So if you have testing (sarge) or stable (woody) entries in your /etc/apt
soruces.list you need to follow the information you can find here:

[url]http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianKDE[/url]

Kind regards, Joerg.

[Robert Bamler]

Hello,

Thank you very much for your reply.

> You might try apt-get update and then run it again.

Yes, I've already tried this some times but that didn't help

> Are you sure you have sources.list correct? It's touchy.

I don't think that there are any problems with KDE or the KDE sources. I
think the problem is that I don't know how to use apt properly.
Surprisingly, the installation finally worked after I had run "apt-config"
(or was it "apt-setup"?). I had found this command by random. But then I
tried to install gaim out of the GUI K package manager. And here again,
some dependency errors hindered me to do so.

So the thing I do not understand is simply: If apt knows that a specific
package is missing and if it knows the name and version of this missing
package, why can't it simply download and install this package
automatically and then download and install the package that depends on the
former?

In other words: How do I have to use apt in order to resolve these
depencency problems automatically? I can't imagine that this is not
supported by apt since it is such an obvious requirement.

I hope you can help me.

Robert