k3b setup problem

[kgw]

I have Knoppix 3.3 installed to my hd. It came with k3b but when I ran it, I would get an error box telling me to use k3bSetup to fix an issue about cdrecord (?). k3bSetup was not installed by Knoppix.

Using apt-get, I couldn't find k3b setup so I removed k3b intending to reinstall it using apt-get. I figured k3bsetup might just come along with it.

This is what I get now:

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root@full:/home/ken# apt-get install k3b
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:
k3b: Depends: libasound2 (> 0.9. but 0.9.3-2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@full:/home/ken#
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Is there a way around this that won't break something else??

Thanks for any help.

Ken

[whitecracker]

it is time you do some reading up on apt. I had the same problem with k3b when installing through debian packages, and when i tried to run the program again, it wouldnt work. Readup on how to "fix broken packages" in apt. this will solve your problem. The reason there is a problem to begin with is that the debian package of k3b requires more than onefile, it needs several... unlike compiling k3b yourself. so get your dependencies straightenned out, and then then fix brken packages. type "man apt-get" or "apt-get help" no quotes, in a command prompt to get more info about the apt-get system.

[kgw]

Well, thanks for that but the bad news is that I have thoroughly and repeatedly read the Apt HowTo and I have taken the steps it recommends.

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root@full:/home/ken# apt-get -u install k3b
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:
k3b: Depends: libasound2 (> 0.9. but 0.9.3-2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@full:/home/ken#
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and then . . . .

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root@full:/home/ken# apt-get -o Debug:kgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Starting
Starting 2
Investigating mount-aes
Package mount-aes has broken dep on mount
Considering mount 5312 as a solution to mount-aes 5418
Considering mount 5312 as a solution to mount-aes 5418
Added mount to the remove list
Considering mount 5312 as a solution to mount-aes 5418
Fixing mount-aes via keep of mount
Investigating initscripts
Package initscripts has broken dep on mount
Considering mount 5312 as a solution to initscripts 5102
Holding Back initscripts rather than change mount
Investigating konq-plugins
Package konq-plugins has broken dep on libasound2
Considering libasound2 157 as a solution to konq-plugins 0
Holding Back konq-plugins rather than change libasound2
Investigating kmix
Package kmix has broken dep on libasound2
Considering libasound2 157 as a solution to kmix 0
Holding Back kmix rather than change libasound2
Try to Re-Instate konq-plugins
Try to Re-Instate kmix
Done
Done
The following packages have been kept back
kmix konq-plugins
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
root@full:/home/ken#

======================

and then after that . . .

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root@full:/home/ken# apt-get -f install k3b
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:
k3b: Depends: libasound2 (> 0.9. but 0.9.3-2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@full:/home/ken# apt-get -u install libasound2=0.9.8
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Version '0.9.8' for 'libasound2' was not found
root@full:/home/ken#

=================

I have also reread the man pages, interesting and informative but they don't get me past this problem.

. . . . still stuck without k3b.

Ken

[Stephen]

Here's what it looks like on my test machine.

[02:35 AM Thu Jan 08: stephen @ ~]
>$ ssh [email protected]
The authenticity of host '192.168.0.10 (192.168.0.10)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 2f:3e:5f:0e:13:c7:2a:1a:68:ae:b4:3a:c6:48:e6:cf.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.0.10' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
[email protected]'s password:
Welcome to Knoppix (Kernel 2.4.22-xfs)
stephen@knoppixtest:~$ su
Password:
root@knoppixtest:/home/stephen# apt-get -s install k3b
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:
  k3b: Depends: libasound2 (> 0.9.8) but 0.9.3-2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@knoppixtest:/home/stephen# apt-get -s install k3b/unstable
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selected version 0.10.3-4 (Debian:unstable) for k3b
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:
  k3b: Depends: libasound2 (> 0.9.8) but 0.9.3-2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@knoppixtest:/home/stephen# acp libasound2
bash: acp: command not found
root@knoppixtest:/home/stephen# apt-cache policy libasound2
libasound2:
  Installed: 0.9.3-2
  Candidate: 0.9.3-2
  Version Table:
     0.9.8-2 0
        500 http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
 *** 0.9.3-2 0
        990 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.9.0beta10a-3 0
        500 http://ftp2.de.debian.org stable/main Packages
root@knoppixtest:/home/stephen# apt-get -s install k3b/unstable libasound2/unstable
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selected version 0.10.3-4 (Debian:unstable) for k3b
Selected version 0.9.8-2 (Debian:unstable) for libasound2
The following extra packages will be installed:
  k3b libasound2 libid3-3.8.3 libk3bcore2 libk3bplugin1 libk3bproject1 libk3btools1
Suggested packages:
  k3b-i18n alsa-base
Recommended packages:
  vcdimager
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  kdelibs4-dev libarts1-dev libasound2-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libid3-3.8.3 libk3bcore2 libk3bplugin1 libk3bproject1 libk3btools1
The following packages will be upgraded
  k3b libasound2
2 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 3 to remove and 52 not upgraded.
Remv kdelibs4-dev (4:3.1.4-3 Debian:testing)
Remv libarts1-dev (1.1.4-3 Debian:testing)
Remv libasound2-dev (0.9.3-2 Debian:testing)
Inst libasound2 [0.9.3-2] (0.9.8-2 Debian:unstable)
Inst libk3bcore2 (0.10.3-4 Debian:unstable)
Inst libid3-3.8.3 (3.8.3-3 Debian:testing)
Inst libk3btools1 (0.10.3-4 Debian:unstable)
Inst libk3bproject1 (0.10.3-4 Debian:unstable) []
Inst libk3bplugin1 (0.10.3-4 Debian:unstable)
Inst k3b [0.9-4] (0.10.3-4 Debian:unstable)
Conf libasound2 (0.9.8-2 Debian:unstable)
Conf libk3bcore2 (0.10.3-4 Debian:unstable)
Conf libid3-3.8.3 (3.8.3-3 Debian:testing)
Conf libk3btools1 (0.10.3-4 Debian:unstable)
Conf libk3bplugin1 (0.10.3-4 Debian:unstable)
Conf libk3bproject1 (0.10.3-4 Debian:unstable)
Conf k3b (0.10.3-4 Debian:unstable)
root@knoppixtest:/home/stephen# apt-get install k3b/unstable libasound2/unstable
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selected version 0.10.3-4 (Debian:unstable) for k3b
Selected version 0.9.8-2 (Debian:unstable) for libasound2
The following extra packages will be installed:
  k3b libasound2 libid3-3.8.3 libk3bcore2 libk3bplugin1 libk3bproject1 libk3btools1
Suggested packages:
  k3b-i18n alsa-base
Recommended packages:
  vcdimager
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  kdelibs4-dev libarts1-dev libasound2-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libid3-3.8.3 libk3bcore2 libk3bplugin1 libk3bproject1 libk3btools1
The following packages will be upgraded
  k3b libasound2
2 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 3 to remove and 52 not upgraded.
Need to get 2800kB of archives.
After unpacking 5632kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable/main libasound2 0.9.8-2 [278kB]
Get:2 http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable/main libk3bcore2 0.10.3-4 [226kB]
Get:3 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main libid3-3.8.3 3.8.3-3 [177kB]
Get:4 http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable/main libk3btools1 0.10.3-4 [90.9kB]
Get:5 http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable/main libk3bproject1 0.10.3-4 [531kB]
Get:6 http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable/main libk3bplugin1 0.10.3-4 [147kB]
Get:7 http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable/main k3b 0.10.3-4 [1351kB]
Fetched 2800kB in 20s (135kB/s)
(Reading database ... 109512 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing kdelibs4-dev ...
Removing libarts1-dev ...
Removing libasound2-dev ...
(Reading database ... 108768 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libasound2 0.9.3-2 (using .../libasound2_0.9.8-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libasound2 ...
Selecting previously deselected package libk3bcore2.
Unpacking libk3bcore2 (from .../libk3bcore2_0.10.3-4_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libid3-3.8.3.
Unpacking libid3-3.8.3 (from .../libid3-3.8.3_3.8.3-3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libk3btools1.
Unpacking libk3btools1 (from .../libk3btools1_0.10.3-4_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libk3bproject1.
Unpacking libk3bproject1 (from .../libk3bproject1_0.10.3-4_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libk3bplugin1.
Unpacking libk3bplugin1 (from .../libk3bplugin1_0.10.3-4_i386.deb) ...
Preparing to replace k3b 0.9-4 (using .../archives/k3b_0.10.3-4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement k3b ...
Setting up libasound2 (0.9.8-2) ...

Setting up libk3bcore2 (0.10.3-4) ...

Setting up libid3-3.8.3 (3.8.3-3) ...

Setting up libk3btools1 (0.10.3-4) ...

Setting up libk3bplugin1 (0.10.3-4) ...

Setting up libk3bproject1 (0.10.3-4) ...

Setting up k3b (0.10.3-4) ...

root@knoppixtest:/home/stephen#

You would now have K3b at the latest version. You should also install the recommended vcdimager package as well and sometimes it nice to have some of the suggested ones too.

[kgw]

Very cool. That worked. Thanks so much!
Ken