kde: broken due to unsatisfied dependencies

[publius]

I just installed Knoppix (v3.2 7/26/03, I think) on a desktop (fresh install, haven't changed my sources list or anything), and I'm having problems upgrading my packages.

For some reason, when I go to upgrade in Aptitude, Knoppix wants to uninstall KDE and a number of KDE-related packages due to unsatified dependencies. I've installed Knoppix and Debian on several computers, but I've never seen this before. Has anyone had this problem before, and is there any way to fix it?

Oh, when I apt-get upgrade, all the same packages that Aptitude wants to remove are held back and are not upgraded.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Dave_Bechtel]

--You're not trying to do a dist-upgrade, are you?

--What happens when you do ' apt-get update && apt-get -u upgrade '?

I just installed Knoppix (v3.2 7/26/03, I think) on a desktop (fresh install, haven't changed my sources list or anything), and I'm having problems upgrading my packages.

For some reason, when I go to upgrade in Aptitude, Knoppix wants to uninstall KDE and a number of KDE-related packages due to unsatified dependencies. I've installed Knoppix and Debian on several computers, but I've never seen this before. Has anyone had this problem before, and is there any way to fix it?

Oh, when I apt-get upgrade, all the same packages that Aptitude wants to remove are held back and are not upgraded.

Any help would be appreciated.

[publius]

Here's a little follow up:
I fixed the problem by manually apt-get installing all the packages that Aptitude was threatening to remove. Everything seems to be ok now.

BTW, I wasn't doing a dist-upgrade in apt, but Aptitude's default upgrade behavior may to dist-upgrade (I wouldn't know). If I had done 'apt-get update && apt-get -u upgrade', I imagine I would have seen a list of packages to be updated along with all the packages that Apt was holding back (the same packages Aptitude wanted to remove).

If this is a bug or an undocumented feature, it's kinda bad because it will freak out unsuspecting ppl when they use Aptitude or do a dist-upgrade in Apt and find they don't have KDE anymore. I am still interested to know exactly what happened, so I'll be looking for follow-ups on this matter.