System totallymessed up after trying to install GNU Electric

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 :? :?

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

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

Thanks,
Wouter

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Originally Posted by WouterM

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

Thanks,
Wouter

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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:

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[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

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

where there any errors? if so, run

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apt-get -f install

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to fix it!