On Thursday 04 July 2013 16:31:43 you wrote: > Help! Following what I thought was a routine upgrade of my Debian > Jessie/Sid system, Trinity has broken. Completely. Many programs have > disappeared from /opt/trinity/bin (most particularly kmail - I'm > writing this on an old backup system). > In an attempt to recover this, I have (I believe) downgraded the > system to Wheezy with the following /etc/apt/sources.list > > ------ > deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib > deb-src http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib > > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib > non-free > > ### I tried both this set and the ones below > deb > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/slavek-banko/axis/ubuntu > wheezy main > deb-src > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/slavek-banko/axis/ubuntu > wheezy main > > ##deb > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/de >bian wheezy main > ##deb-src > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/de >bian wheezy main > ##deb > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps- >v3.5.13/debian wheezy main > ##deb-src > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps- >v3.5.13/debian wheezy main > ------- > > After that, > > apt-get install desktop-base-trinity > appears to work. But > > apt-get install kde-trinity > gives: > > ----- > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > kde-trinity : Depends: kde-core-trinity (>= 5:47) but it is not > going to be installed > Depends: kdeaddons-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not > going to be installed > Depends: kdegraphics-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is > not going to be installed > Depends: kdepim-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not > going to be installed > Depends: kdeutils-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not > going to be installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > ----- > > Several questions: > > What have I done wrong?! All suggestions welcome... > I tried to follow the instructions at > http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/DebianBinar >yInstallation Are they actually correct? > Has anyone else succeeded in a new or upgraded installation in the > last couple of days? > > cheers > > anthony Nothing routine running TDE on a Jessie/Sid system, it is compiled for Wheezy, just because you were lucky to get it working ...updates to Jessie are unpredictable as far as TDE is concerned. Also the TDE mirrors are syncing right now, when finished you will not need slaveks repo's anymore. "apt-cache policy kde-core-trinity" kde-core-trinity: Installed: (none) Candidate: 5:54.2-0debian7.0.0+0 Version table: 5:54.2-0debian7.0.0+0 0 500 http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages -- Peace, Greg