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Apt dist-upgrade wants to kill kde

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fram
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Apt dist-upgrade wants to kill kde

#1 Post by fram »

Howdy All,

Not sure if this belongs here or in System Config...anyhoo:

I'm using Sarge with kde 3.3.2 a custom 2.6.11 kernel.

"apt-get dist-upgrade -s" produces the following:
  • Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    Calculating Upgrade... Done
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
    kde kdeaddons vim vim-common vim-gtk vimpart
    The following packages have been kept back:
    libgal2.4-0 libgal2.4-common
    The following packages will be upgraded:
    binutils debconf-utils debhelper libruby1.8 nxclient razor ruby1.8 zlib1g zlib1g-dev
    9 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
    Remv kde (5:44 Debian:3.1r0/stable, Debian:testing, Debian:unstable)
    Remv kdeaddons (4:3.3.2-4 Debian:3.1r0/stable, Debian:testing, Debian:unstable)
    Remv vimpart (4:3.3.2-4 Debian:3.1r0/stable, Debian:testing, Debian:unstable)
    Remv vim-gtk (1:6.3-078+1 Debian:unstable)
    Remv vim (1:6.3-078+1 Debian:unstable) [vim-common ]
    Remv vim-common (1:6.3-078+1 Debian:unstable)
    Inst zlib1g-dev [1:1.2.2-4] (1:1.2.2-4.sarge.1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable) []
    Inst zlib1g [1:1.2.2-4] (1:1.2.2-4.sarge.1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
    Conf zlib1g (1:1.2.2-4.sarge.1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
    Inst binutils [2.15-7] (2.16.1-2 Debian:unstable)
    Inst debconf-utils [1.4.51] (1.4.52 Debian:unstable)
    Inst debhelper [4.9.1] (4.9.3 Debian:testing)
    Inst libruby1.8 [1.8.2-7] (1.8.2-7sarge1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
    Inst nxclient [1.4.0-91] (1.4.0-91.2 Debian:kanotix.com)
    Inst razor [2.670-1] (2.670-1sarge2 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
    Inst ruby1.8 [1.8.2-7] (1.8.2-7sarge1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
    Conf zlib1g-dev (1:1.2.2-4.sarge.1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
    Conf binutils (2.16.1-2 Debian:unstable)
    Conf debconf-utils (1.4.52 Debian:unstable)
    Conf debhelper (4.9.3 Debian:testing)
    Conf libruby1.8 (1.8.2-7sarge1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
    Conf nxclient (1.4.0-91.2 Debian:kanotix.com)
    Conf razor (2.670-1sarge2 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
    Conf ruby1.8 (1.8.2-7sarge1 Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
As you can see, I do have some unstable packages installed, which I suppose are causing the conflict. This happened because I used my old sources.liist after Sarge went stable, and didn't have debconf set to Default-Release "stable". Removing/downgrading VIM wants to remove kde as well. How can I go back to stable on individual packages without taking down kde?
Or should I just let Apt do what it wants, and and then reinstall the packages it removed? (this option kind of scares me..)

many thanks,
mike
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#2 Post by lacek »

The packages 'kde' and 'kdeaddons' are empty ones, just depending on some packages in order to make installing easy (so you can do 'apt-get install kde', and it installs everything, because it depends on them). They don't actually contain any programs.
Here, kde depends on kdeaddons, which depends on vimpart, which depends on vim. So as vim removed, all of these will be removed as well, but you needn't worry about that: you won't lose any programs (except, of course, vim, but you can reinstall it later).
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fram
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Joined: 2005-07-12 07:30

Thanks!

#3 Post by fram »

Thanks for your help.
I feel much better now...
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