Want FTP client, trying kbear, but...

[RobertB]

It just gets stranger and stranger.

root@littlecutie:/home/rab# apt-get --purge remove kbear
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kmines: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkdegames (>= 4:2.2.2-2.2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqt2 (>= 3:2.3.1-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: kdebase-libs but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

That's pretty much the same output I get with apt-get install kbear!

I got similar results trying to uninstall kmines:

root@littlecutie:/home/rab# apt-get --purge remove kmines
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kbear: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libqt2 (>= 3:2.3.1-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: kdebase-libs but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Is there some sort of circular dependency here? Am I going to have to manually delete files to fix things?

[Stephen]

Try apt-get --purge remove kbear kmines and can I see the output of apt-cache policy kdelibs4 it looks like it keeps wanting to install stuff from stable here you may want to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list to comment out (put a #character in front of) the line for stable in the file.

[RobertB]

Try apt-get --purge remove kbear kmines

It worked! w00t! Now I know how to remove multiple applications, even when they have intermeshed dependencies. There's no limit to the trouble I can cause myself now...

...and can I see the output of apt-cache policy kdelibs4 it looks like it keeps wanting to install stuff from stable here you may want to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list to comment out (put a #character in front of) the line for stable in the file.

Let me know if you still would like this info... otherwise, it looks like the topic's done with great results. Thanks to all!

(Now, if I could just figure out why it takes kbear several minutes to load... but that's probably my low memory and disk space, not a Knoppix issue.)