Saturday, December 29, 2007

KDE4 upgrade and Debian = trouble

laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install kdelibs5 kdebase-runtime-bin kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 libgif4
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgif4: Conflicts: libungif4g but 4.1.4-5 is to be installed
E: Broken packages


laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install kdelibs5 kdebase-runtime-bin kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdebase-runtime-bin: Depends: libungif4g (>= 4.1.4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages



WTF?? It's worth noting that libungif and libgif are not allowed to be installed at the same time, so it's either one or the other. Libungif is no longer supported upstream, and for some god aweful reason the NEW KDE4 requires the farking package!? Ugh.