1. Backup critical files (/etc and others)

2. Re-install.

--Sorry. Once I flamed KDE back to the Stone Age by de-installing WINE (this was months ago, prolly the 1st time I installed to HD) and there was really no alternative but a reinstall to completely fix the system.

Quote Originally Posted by athlonthunder
i did an apt-get install kdewallpapers, and then kde-libs and kde-base went kablooey ... they went bye-bye to make room for kdewallpapers .deb

grrrrrr. makes me mad that a wallpaper set messed things up, and i can't get a base file back.

i managed to get back kde-libs, but i can't get back kde-base

i tried removing the kdewallpapers deb that caused the mess, and reinstalled kde-libs, but it won't allow kde-base deb. is there any way to get it back after using the force option to no avail? it tells me that there are unsatisfied dependencies now with other components.

i even tried the --fix-broken option to apt-get.