System totallymessed up after trying to install GNU Electric

[WouterM]

Hello all! I hope this is the relevant groups. I'm using Debian installed from a Knoppix CD (v3.2). Recently i tried to install electric 6.05-1 from the Debian package archive, for which i needed a few extra libraries (among others xlibs). I believe it was the latter library after which things started to go funny. First all the characters on my KDE desktop became squares. After restarting i couldn't even start KDE or run the X server anymore. Anybody have any idea what's going on?
Regards,
Wouter

[aay]

When you installed it, did it remove packages as well?

[WouterM]

I suppose it did. Is there any way to figure out what's been removed?

Thanks,
Wouter

[Stephen]

I suppose it did. Is there any way to figure out what's been removed?

Thanks,
Wouter

dpkg -l | kde* and dpkg -l | grep xfree* this will tell you what the status of the main kde and xfree packages are my machine for instance:

[02:56 PM Wed Oct 08: stephen @ ~]
>$ dpkg -l | grep kde*
rc  kdat           3.1.2-0woody1  KDE tape backup tool
ii  kdebase        3.1.3-1        KDE Base metapackage
ii  kdebase-bin    3.1.3-1        KDE Base (binaries)
ii  kdebase-data   3.1.3-1        KDE Base (shared data)
ii  kdebase-kio-pl 3.1.3-1        KDE I/O Slaves
rc  kdebase-libs   2.2.2-14       KDE libraries and modules for kdebase
ii  kdelibs-bin    3.1.4-2        KDE core binaries
ii  kdelibs-data   3.1.4-2        KDE core shared data
rc  kdelibs3       2.2.2-13       KDE core libraries (runtime files)
ii  kdelibs4       3.1.4-2        KDE core libraries
ii  kdepim-libs    3.1.3-1        KDE PIM libraries
ii  kdeprint       3.1.3-1        KDE Print
ii  kdesktop       3.1.3-1        KDE Desktop
ii  kdm            3.1.3-1        KDE Display Manager
ii  libkdenetwork2 3.1.3-1        KDE Network (common libraries)

[02:58 PM Wed Oct 08: stephen @ ~]
>$ dpkg -l | grep xfree86*
ii  xfree86-common 4.3.0-0ds4     X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
ii  xserver-xfree8 4.3.0-0ds4     the XFree86 X server

If you want to see the status of the kde 3.1.? packages COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep 3.1.[34].

[Superstoned]

where there any errors? if so, run

apt-get -f install

to fix it!