What do you get after hd installing?

There something weird there libarts is no even installed on my woody machine unless it is looking for the aRts Sound.

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[email protected]:~$ dpkg -l libarts*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version          Description
+++-================-================-================================================
un  libarts          <none>          (no description available)
un  libarts-alsa    <none>          (no description available)
un  libarts-mpeglib  <none>          (no description available)
ii  libarts1        1.1.1-0woody1    aRts Sound system
ii  libarts1-audiofi 3.1.1-0woody1    audiofile (aRts plugin)
ii  libarts1-mpeglib 3.1.1-0woody1    mpeglib is a mp3 and mpeg I video/audio library
ii  libartsc0        1.1.1-0woody1    aRts Sound system C support library

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What else do you have in your sources.list and have you tried installing every thing it wants on the laptop in the one operation like I suggested above?

I have upgraded to KDE 3.1.1 on my woody systems.

you'll need to remove libarts and then install libarts1 see Stephen's dpkg -l listing.

You shouldn't have a lot of trouble going from KDE 2.2 to 3.1.1 but going from any 3.X to a newer version can be troublesome.

If you run into problems because a file is listed in two packages use:
dpkg --force overwrite -i * package-name

then rerun apt-get dist-upgrade (and possibly dpkg --configure -a) until everything is OK.

HTH

rock

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Originally Posted by Stephen

What else do you have in your sources.list and have you tried installing every thing it wants on the laptop in the one operation like I suggested above?

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In sources.list I have the standard security.debian.org and the two cds I installed from, along with the KDE source.

Trying to install everything it wants on the laptop gets me down to these dependencies:

libart-2.0-2
libsensors1
libasound2
libmad0
poster

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Originally Posted by RockMumbles

you'll need to remove libarts and then install libarts1 see Stephen's dpkg -l listing.

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Tried that and libarts was removed ok, but trying to install libarts 1 gives me these dependencies:

libasound2
libglib2.0-0
libmad0

Trying to install any of these three gives the error: Package * has no installation candidate.

Do you have sources.list entries for debian stable? Such as:

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#Debian
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

#Debian Non-US
deb http://non-us.debian.org/ stable/non-US main contrib non-free

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the three packages you need are in debian stable repositories not in kde

HTH

rock

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Originally Posted by RockMumbles

the three packages you need are in debian stable repositories not in kde

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Indeed they are! Thanks very much for your help. I've installed all of the packages it was complaining about and I'm now downloading KDE, hopefully I won't have any further trouble.

Thanks again!

Everything worked fine and I'm now posting this from KDE 3.1.1!

Thanks again!