Quote Originally Posted by ferreter
I'm at my utter wits end, why the hell does package management have to be such a headache? Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? The knoppix install is practically fresh.

Thanks.
You are trying to install the wrong version, install from the unstable branch with the command apt-get -s install kvirc/unstable it will more than likely tell you there is a conflict mith libqt3c102-mt at least on my machine it does so try installing with apt-get -s install kvirc/unstablelibqt3c102-mt/unstable and it should succeed. The way it looks on my computer:
Code:
HappyTux:/home/stephen# apt-get -s install kvirc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kvirc: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
HappyTux:/home/stephen# apt-cache policy kvirc
kvirc:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:2.1.2-11
  Version Table:
     2:2.1.2-24 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
     1:2.1.2-11 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main Packages
        990 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages

HappyTux:/home/stephen# apt-get -s install kvirc/unstable
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selected version 2:2.1.2-24 (Debian:unstable) for kvirc
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kvirc: Depends: libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:3.2.1) but 3:3.1.1-9 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
HappyTux:/home/stephen# apt-cache policy libqt3c102-mt
libqt3c102-mt:
  Installed: 3:3.1.1-9
  Candidate: 3:3.1.1-9
  Version Table:
     3:3.2.1-4 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
 *** 3:3.1.1-9 0
        990 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
HappyTux:/home/stephen# apt-get -s install kvirc/unstable libqt3c102-mt/unstable
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selected version 2:2.1.2-24 (Debian:unstable) for kvirc
Selected version 3:3.2.1-4 (Debian:unstable) for libqt3c102-mt
The following extra packages will be installed:
  kvirc libqt3c102-mt libxcursor1
Suggested packages:
  libqt3c102-mt-mysql
Recommended packages:
  kvirc-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kvirc libxcursor1
The following packages will be upgraded
  libqt3c102-mt
1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Inst libxcursor1 (1.0.2-2 Debian:testing)
Inst libqt3c102-mt [3:3.1.1-9] (3:3.2.1-4 Debian:unstable)
Inst kvirc (2:2.1.2-24 Debian:unstable)
Conf libxcursor1 (1.0.2-2 Debian:testing)
Conf libqt3c102-mt (3:3.2.1-4 Debian:unstable)
Conf kvirc (2:2.1.2-24 Debian:unstable)
Now if I remove the -s from the last command I could install kvirc. BTW Knoppix includes Xchat which works well for irc.