Oh crap not again?!?!? Goodby KDE!
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Well it seems I have screwed up once again. Only this time I have no clue how.
Basically I did a clean upgrade from rc4 to rc5. Being someone who likes new toys to play with I resolved that I would do as I had done last time with RC4 and upgrade as soon as possible to KDE 3.3. To do this I repeated exactly the same process I had used with rc4 and I booted out of kde and into an empty xsession with a command prompt and then I used synaptic to remove all the old KDE packages. I then when through the list selecting everything that mentioned KDE 3.3, clicked on apply and happily sat back in expectation of my nice new desktop.
However syaptic immediately popped up a warning about a whole bunch of unresolved dependencies telling me this or that component wouldn't be installed (basically it was telling me it was refusing to install the new version of KDE - and to resolve any of it's dependancies).
But I seriously don't get it. The last time I did this it (which was the same day KDE 3.3 was released) went without a hitch. Why would I have zero hassles then and all these hassles now when I am using an identical methodology to upgrade. And why all these dependancies? Isn't apt supposed to solve these?
The only thing I can think of is that my sources.list for RC4 did seem considerably longer than it is in RC5. Have the software developers possibly removed some mirrors from the list?
How can I install KDE 3.3 and not have to worry about these dependancies? There are literally hundreds of them, so I do not feel I have the strength to work through them all manually.
I set my default preferences in Synaptic to unstable, so I can at least see the packages are there.
Please advise!
I am very stuck!
Best regards,
GJ
Well I don't really get that
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You were right! Thanks!
Reading around the wb confirms this.
The exact package that is needed is libopenexr0_1.1.1-1_i386.deb the blockers are libopenexr0 libopenexr2 libopenexr-dev. If you have any of these currently installed you must remove them. (They are all later versions) and install this specific library version.
I'm not sure how this got upgraded? My assumption is that it did come with the new RC5 CD?
Perhaps Warren should look into it?
Just a thought.
GJ
KDE Dependencies
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Last I checked libopenexr2 which is a KDE dependency had been recently upgraded in Debian unstable. KDE 3.3 was built against libopenexr0. When KDE is rebuilt against libopenexr2 I think things will work.
I upgraded to KDE 3.3 before without any problems. I believe this is a Debian issue rather than a Mepis issue.