What do you get after hd installing?

[Stephen]

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

[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

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?

[RockMumbles]

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

[KevB]

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?

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

[KevB]

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

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.

[RockMumbles]

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

#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

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

HTH

rock

[KevB]

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

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!

[KevB]

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

Thanks again!