SOLVED: Cannot install KDE4

[FOXX]

Hello, I'm running a fresh install of Gutsy x86_64 and can't install KDE4.

I followed the directions here: http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.php

When I tell adept or apt-get to install kde4-core it insists that installing it will break the system. Adept tells me nothing about why it'd break so from the console I pulled up the following...

foxx@system name changed:~$ sudo apt-get install kde4-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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:
kde4-core: Depends: kdebase-workspace (>= 4:4.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

For completeness I tried to install kdebase-workspace myself but that proved to also have the same results, only this time complaining about many things such as Klipper.



Any ideas?

NOTE: after adding the repository I was told there were updates available and thus installed all available updates. Would this be part of the problem? If so, why on earth would it not retrieve the newer packages and why would there not be a warning to not update available packages on the Kubuntu instructions?

[vanderwaal]

I'm having the same problem as well . . . however I think it's due to some package problems on the dependency server. What I mean is that the packages on the server aren't right, so apt-get is preventing their install.

I actually successfully installed kde4 the other day, and then uninstalled it by accident last night, and went to repeat the same process I used before to install it, and it didn't work. My advice is to wait another day until the packages have been fixed.

-William

[integr8e]

Try running the command

sudo apt-get install -f

That should fix you problem; let me know if it doesn't

Edit: Actually, if it doesn't work, try installing the packages with the command

sudo aptitude install kde4-core

Aptitude is similar to, but a more advanced package manager than apt-get; it should install everything you need (sometimes it does try to uninstall things, though, so double check what it wants to do before you choose "yes")

[vanderwaal]

Sadly, that still doesn't work. I think its a problem in the repository.

-William

[integr8e]

I don't think there's a problem with the repo, because I installed KDE 4.0 via the repository listed in the link you provided above.

Will you please post your sources.list?

[FOXX]

Tried the -f option on apt-get, still no dice. Tried aptitude but declined from proceeding since I wasn't 100% positive it was going to leave me with a usable system. Sorry, I'm a little sick so I figured I'd ask for a second set of eyes to take a look and see if it'd be wise to go ahead with it.

foxx@system-name-removed:~$ sudo aptitude install kde4-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
kdebase-workspace
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
dbus-x11 dolphin-kde4 kappfinder-kde4 kde-icons-oxygen kde4libs-bin
kdebase-bin-kde4 kdebase-data-kde4 kdebase-kde4 kdebase-runtime
kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 kdebase-runtime-data kdebase-workspace-data
kdelibs5 kdelibs5-data kdepasswd-kde4 kdepimlibs-data kdepimlibs5
kfind-kde4 konqueror-kde4 konqueror-nsplugins-kde4 konsole-kde4
kwrite-kde4 libcurl3 libenchant1c2a libkonq5 libkonq5-templates
libphonon4 libqt4-qt3support libqt4-sql libraptor1 librasqal0 librdf0
libsoprano4 libsqlite0 libstrigiqtdbusclient0 raptor-utils redland-utils
shared-mime-info
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
kdebase-bin-kde3
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dbus-x11 dolphin-kde4 kappfinder-kde4 kde-icons-oxygen kde4-core
kde4libs-bin kdebase-bin-kde4 kdebase-data-kde4 kdebase-kde4
kdebase-runtime kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 kdebase-runtime-data
kdebase-workspace-data kdelibs5 kdelibs5-data kdepasswd-kde4
kdepimlibs-data kdepimlibs5 kfind-kde4 konqueror-kde4
konqueror-nsplugins-kde4 konsole-kde4 kwrite-kde4 libcurl3 libenchant1c2a
libkonq5 libkonq5-templates libphonon4 libqt4-qt3support libqt4-sql
libraptor1 librasqal0 librdf0 libsoprano4 libsqlite0
libstrigiqtdbusclient0 raptor-utils redland-utils shared-mime-info
The following packages will be REMOVED:
kdebase-bin-kde3
0 packages upgraded, 40 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 101MB of archives. After unpacking 191MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdebase-workspace: Depends: kdebase-workspace-bin (>= 4:4.0.0-0ubuntu3~gutsy1~ppa1) but it is not installable
Depends: klipper-kde4 (>= 4:4.0.0-0ubuntu3~gutsy1~ppa1) but it is not installable
Depends: ksysguard-kde4 (>= 4:4.0.0-0ubuntu3~gutsy1~ppa1) but it is not installable
Depends: kwin-kde4 (>= 4:4.0.0-0ubuntu3~gutsy1~ppa1) but it is not installable
Depends: systemsettings-kde4 (>= 4:4.0.0-0ubuntu3~gutsy1~ppa1) but it is not installable
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
kde4-core [Not Installed]
kdebase-workspace [Not Installed]

Score is -9872

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Install the following packages:
kde4base [3.94.0-0ubuntu1 (gutsy)]
kde4base-data [3.94.0-0ubuntu1 (gutsy)]
kdebase-workspace [3.94.0-0ubuntu2 (gutsy)]
kdebase-workspace-data [3.94.0-0ubuntu2 (gutsy)]
libcapseo0 [0.3.0+svn20070725-0ubuntu1 (gutsy)]
libcaptury0 [0.3.0+svn20070725-0ubuntu3 (gutsy)]
libqimageblitz4 [0.0.706674-2build1 (gutsy)]

Keep the following packages at their current version:
kde4-core [Not Installed]

Score is -9986

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.

[integr8e]

Double check and make sure you haven't tried to install any v.3.9.x software, it conflicts with v.4.0 (I just spent 3 days trying to figure out why I couldn't install Kmahjongg-kde4, only to discover I had the outdated v.3.9.x kde4games library installed).

Edit: I was also receiving a similar error to the one you're experiencing; I fixed it by uninstalling the old library, and installing the new one.

[FOXX]

I'll take a look if I can tomorrow though I've got to admit the prospect of looking through every KDE package I've got to see if any are 3.9 or not is daunting to say the least. Still, I will report back and be checking this thread.

Thank you for the help thus far, I really would like to run KDE 4.

[integr8e]

You don't have to look through all of them, just search "kde4" (there isn't an enormous amount of them); then, check only the packages that have been installed.

[FOXX]

Just as an update, I was tooling around with it and miraculously I could install kde4-core. I have no idea why, I hadn't done anything as I couldn't find any out-of-the-ordinary packages to install, just there it was.

Oh well, suppose this is solved though it'd be nice to know how.