Quote Originally Posted by nibl
Any ideas how to get around the dependency problems?
How do you update KDE for Knoppix?
I was also forced to upgrade to KDE 3.4.2 from KDE 3.4.1 because of broken finnish language package. About a month ago everything was very easy and dist-upgrade didn't cause any extra problem.

Now the situation is not the same. If you have testing and unstable in your /etc/apt/sources.list, dist-upgrade wants to install X.org instead of XFree86. And I have not succeeded to get X.org to start automatically after burning CD.

So you must check carefully what is to be installed. Don't install x11-common because then xfree86 don't start anymore. I think this is a Debian packaging problem because at this stage X.org is not installed. You get only a message that you should install x-window-system metapackage. It uses xorg.conf instead of XFConfig-4 - so you should rename it to that or make a symlink to get X to start. I have not investigated that very much, so I can't tell how to get X.org to work propelly.

But those dependency problems are caused because of packages have files which have same names. You can bypass that by adding to /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg a new line force-overwrite. It doesn't break anything. But no dependency problems after that


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