-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlPyLpoACgkQLaxZSoRZrGGzvQDfeqD5lik7oOndHX4HZB5cFV+s FZulJTiPnGfwCgDfRrM+cWZ8GvzW8c7jU1hywwTZDq6ycl4zSkj8Ag== =fEXB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----