System totallymessed up after trying to install GNU Electric

[WouterM]

Hello all! I hope this is the relevant groups. I'm using Debian installed from a Knoppix CD (v3.2). Recently i tried to install electric 6.05-1 from the Debian package archive, for which i needed a few extra libraries (among others xlibs). I believe it was the latter library after which things started to go funny. First all the characters on my KDE desktop became squares. After restarting i couldn't even start KDE or run the X server anymore. Anybody have any idea what's going on?
Regards,
Wouter :? :?

[aay]

When you installed it, did it remove packages as well?

[WouterM]

I suppose it did. Is there any way to figure out what's been removed?

Thanks,
Wouter

[Stephen]

I suppose it did. Is there any way to figure out what's been removed?

Thanks,
Wouter
dpkg -l | kde* and dpkg -l | grep xfree* this will tell you what the status of the main kde and xfree packages are my machine for instance:


[02:56 PM Wed Oct 08: stephen @ ~]
>$ dpkg -l | grep kde*
rc kdat 3.1.2-0woody1 KDE tape backup tool
ii kdebase 3.1.3-1 KDE Base metapackage
ii kdebase-bin 3.1.3-1 KDE Base (binaries)
ii kdebase-data 3.1.3-1 KDE Base (shared data)
ii kdebase-kio-pl 3.1.3-1 KDE I/O Slaves
rc kdebase-libs 2.2.2-14 KDE libraries and modules for kdebase
ii kdelibs-bin 3.1.4-2 KDE core binaries
ii kdelibs-data 3.1.4-2 KDE core shared data
rc kdelibs3 2.2.2-13 KDE core libraries (runtime files)
ii kdelibs4 3.1.4-2 KDE core libraries
ii kdepim-libs 3.1.3-1 KDE PIM libraries
ii kdeprint 3.1.3-1 KDE Print
ii kdesktop 3.1.3-1 KDE Desktop
ii kdm 3.1.3-1 KDE Display Manager
ii libkdenetwork2 3.1.3-1 KDE Network (common libraries)

[02:58 PM Wed Oct 08: stephen @ ~]
>$ dpkg -l | grep xfree86*
ii xfree86-common 4.3.0-0ds4 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
ii xserver-xfree8 4.3.0-0ds4 the XFree86 X server


If you want to see the status of the kde 3.1.? packages COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep 3.1.[34].

[Superstoned]

where there any errors? if so, run
apt-get -f install to fix it!