said Slávek Banko:
| On Sunday 21 of December 2014 02:39:35 dep wrote:
| > upgrade on my notebook machine went relatively uneventfully, so i
| > thought it safe to upgrade desktop machine. and boke everything
| > to the extent that i do not have x on the desktop machine at all.
| >
| > am running ubuntu-12.04LTS
| >
| > from a terminal, having added the specified lines to my
| > sources.list and commented out the old tde lines, i did:
| >
| > sudo apt-get update
| > sudo aptutide upgrade
| >
| > due to server congestion i had to run the latter several times.
| > it then specified a problem, to be solved by removal of
| > libcal2b-trinity and libqt-perl.
| >
| > the installation blows up in a fashion too long to list here --
| > i'd have to type it in character by characer, and it includes "25
| > not fully installed or removed" when i went back at it with sudo
| > apt-get dist-upgrade. that command blows up with:
| >
| > dpkg: error
| > processing
| > /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ub
| >untu12.04. 0+pr138_all.deb (--unpack):
| > trying to
| > overwrite
| > '/opt/trinity/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/devices/cdrom_unmount_
| >encrypt.pn g', which is also in package
| > kdebase-kio-plugins-trinity
| > 4:3.5.13.2-0ubuntu12.04.0+0
| > dpkg-deb (subprocess): data was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
| > dpkg-deb (subprocess): error: subprocess <decompress> returned
| > error exit status 2
| > Errors were encountered while
| > processing:
| > /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ub
| >untu12.04. 0+pr138_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned
| > an error code (1)
| >
| > not real sure how to proceed. ideas?
| >
| > thanks.
|
| I see as a problem that you used 'aptitude upgrade' instead
| 'aptitude dist-upgrade'. On my test machine I use aufs, thanks to
| which I could re-testing of the upgrade from 3.5.13.2 to R14.0.0.
|
| In the case of 'aptitude dist-upgrade' on my test machine upgrade
| always go smoothly. Where I used 'apt-get dist-upgrade' there is a
| problem with tdelibs-data, as in your case.

sorry -- i wrote it wrong. it was dist-upgrade -- i always use it when 
it says that otherwise packages will be held back.

got it all installed now, apparently (only time "apt-get install -f" 
ever fixed anything for me!) and have a new problem:

at startx (it makes me log in at a terminal), i get x and a box that 
says "Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation."

so. how might i check my installation?
-- 
dep

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