[Bug 1100622] Re: package kdelibs5-plugins (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/ktelnetservice', which is also in package kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-3ubuntu2.10.04.1

[Knut Hildebrandt]

Hi all,

want to come back to this thread since I ran again into the old problem
when KDE 4.11 came out. I could avoid it by not upgrading KDE, but when
it came to upgrading to Kubuntu 13.10 there was no way around it any
more. And of course, during the upgrade process all my KDE3 applications
should have been uninstalled. That is why I did some research to find an
updated version of kdelibs4c2a, which did not conflict with KDE 4.11.

Eventually I stumbled upon this post http://www.binarytides.com/install-
quanta-plus-ubuntu-13-04/ about installing Quanta plus under Raring. And
it worked for me. The thus installed Quanta survived the upgrade from
Raring to Saucy and runs under KDE 4.11.

Big drawback: all my other KDE3 application were gone, since the
original kdelibs4c2a was uninstalled during the upgrade process. And for
some reason they were not in the Trinity packages.

But I still could find them on lauchpad:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/ Here I searched for all the
packages I needed and downloaded them. Then I edited them acording to
the procedure proposed by @robegue in post #17. I basically did two
things:

1. I moved all stuff whch was found under /usr to /opt/kde3, where the
Trinity packeges are installed

2. I edited the control file to change the dependencies which basically
means I added -kde3 to kdelibs4c2a, since the Trinity project renamed
all packages by adding -kde3.

Last but not least I added /opt/kde3/bin to the PATH variable to make
sure that the programs can be evoked by their name instead of the full
path. Probalbly it would be wise to add something to the man path etc.
too, but I couldn't be bothered.

@Silver Moon: as described above one gets Quanta plus running under
13.10. But you have to make sure to uninstall the kdelibs4c2a package as
well as the old kdelibs-data.

@Martin Schläffer: with the kde3 maintainers repository already exists a
PPA which holds a working kdelibs4c2a. The only thing, not all programs
found their way into this repo. What about publishing the missing
packages on your PPA? I could contribute hacked lucid packages for
klamav, kleansweep, knmap, knoda, kstreamripper and ktranslator. But it
would be a good idea if someone with more insight in packaging would
have a look at my packages first.

Have fun.

Knut

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Title:
  package kdelibs5-plugins (not installed) failed to install/upgrade:
  trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/ktelnetservice', which is also in
  package kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-3ubuntu2.10.04.1

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