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Re: [trinity-users] I am so, so sorry - Kubuntu 14.04

From: Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:29:34 +0200
Dne po 18. srpna 2014 Timothy Pearson napsal(a):
> > On 08/12/14 08:42, Lou Gogan wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 12 August 2014 14:00:23 Michele Calgaro wrote:
> >>>> There are still people in the world who like things to *work*, not
> >>>> glitter.
> >>>
> >>> I think this is one of the best (if not "the best") description of
> >>> what's
> >>
> >> wrong with KDE4, Gnome 3 and any other DE that puts appeareance before
> >> functionality!!
> >>
> >>> Cheers
> >>>    Michele
> >>
> >> out why on earth somebody would want a window and its contents to
> >> wobble. It
> >> was definitely targetting a 4 year old. I stopped being a 4 year old
> >> more than
> >> 50 years ago. (no doubt I will be back at that stage in another 20 years
> >> or
> >> more) but for the moment I just want computer to WORK FOR ME. If I want
> >> the
> >
> > Now, then, it's been 45+ years since I was *chronologically* a
> > four-year-old, however ...  :-)
> >
> > KDE4 is really quite sad.  I was willing to accept the eye candy but even
> > then, it doesn't work right.  If you put a panel at the top of a screen
> > it should be there after you go home at night and then come in the next
> > day. Nope.  All panels stuffed into one screen.  And I didn't even
> > logout, just locked the screen.
> >
> > So.  At Sl�vek's suggestion, I installed all the TDE packages from his
> > repo.  Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to get the last few
> > packages to install.  I keep getting stuck here:
> >
> > sudo apt-get -f install
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Correcting dependencies... Done
> > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> > required:
> >    crystalcursors tdmtheme-trinity
> > Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> > The following extra packages will be installed:
> >    ksmserver-trinity
> > Recommended packages:
> >    tde-ubuntu-integration
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >    ksmserver-trinity
> > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 191 not upgraded.
> > 260 not fully installed or removed.
> > Need to get 0 B/248 kB of archives.
> > After this operation, 589 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> > (Reading database ... 166837 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Preparing to unpack
> > .../ksmserver-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-s~1270-0ubuntu14.04.1+166_amd64.deb ...
> > Unpacking ksmserver-trinity (4:14.0.0-s~1270-0ubuntu14.04.1+166) ...
> > dpkg: error processing archive
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/ksmserver-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-s~1270-0ubuntu14.04.
> >1+166_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> >   trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/plasma-desktop', which is also in package
> > plasma-desktop 4:4.11.10-0ubuntu0.1
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >
> >
> > I did the autoremove as apt-get suggested, which gives me:
> >
> > plaws@toto3:plaws $ sudo apt-get autoremove
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   kubuntu-desktop-trinity : Depends: ksmserver-trinity but it is not
> > installed
> >                             Recommends: kubuntu-default-settings-trinity
> > but it is not installed
> >                             Recommends: kubuntu-docs-trinity but it is
> > not installable
> >                             Recommends:
> > kubuntu-konqueror-shortcuts-trinity
> > but it is not installable
> >                             Recommends: networkstatus-trinity but it is
> > not
> > installable
> >                             Recommends: libreoffice-trinity but it is not
> > installable or
> >                                         openoffice.org-trinity but it is
> > not installable
> >                             Recommends: powernowd but it is not
> > installable
> >                             Recommends: scim-bridge-client-qt but it is
> > not
> > installable
> >                             Recommends: scim-qtimm but it is not
> > installable
> >                             Recommends: skim but it is not installable
> >                             Recommends: system-config-printer-tde-trinity
> > but it is not installable
> >                             Recommends:
> > plymouth-theme-kubuntu-logo-trinity
> > but it is not installable
> >   tdebase-trinity : Depends: ksmserver-trinity (>=
> > 4:14.0.0-s~1268-0ubuntu14.04.1+166) but it is not installed
> > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> >
> >
> >
> > And of course '-f' gives me the same.  Do I need to remove some of the
> > KDE4
> > packages?  If so, which ones?
>
> Slavek, when we removed the Plasma diverts from ksmserver-trinity I
> thought we also removed the plasma-desktop file from the same package.
> Did we miss something here or is the version of tdebase in your PPA not up
> to date yet?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim
>

Divert were removed in commit c1049b58 (tde-packaging), but not files. I was 
not sure what was your intention at the time, so I did not interfere in that. 
I guess I should talk about it at that time :)

-- 
Slavek