On Sunday 28 December 2014 7:55:35 pm you wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, E. Liddell wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:49:02 -0500 (EST)
> >
> > Felmon Davis <davisf@...> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> >>>> On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Michele Calgaro wrote:
> >>>>> On 2014/12/28 06:19 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> c) can't install bluetooth utilities on the laptop that has it.
> >>>
> >>> Terminal output would be helpful here too. :-)
> >>
> >> for instance attempting "apt-get install bluedevil" yields:
> >>
> >> ------
> >> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >>   bluedevil : Depends: kde-runtime (> 4:4.10) but it is not going to be
> >> installed
> >> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> >> ------
> >>
> >> weird how kde-runtime is involved. attempting to install it yields
> >> another bouquet of "depends ... not going to be installed; you have
> >> held broken packages" messages.
> >
> > bluedevil is a KDE project, so it's unsurprising it wants a bunch
> > of KDE4 stuff installed.  There are a couple of alternatives, though.
>
> someone else made a comment like this "X is a kde app so not
> surprising the number of dependencies" which I find perplexing since
> this is KDE(3) land after all.
>
> anyway, I had to do some futzing around, basically accepting a number
> of 'downgrades', for example:

The reference to KDE is that most distro package repositories will have the 
latest version of KDE4, the Trinity desktop is TDE, package names ending 
in '-trinity'


-- 
Peace,

Greg