Issues installing KDE 4.4

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi all,

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 13:01, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alvin wrote:
>> On Thursday 11 February 2010 11:24:13 Georgi Kourtev wrote:
>>>>> You probably need only to wait a bit until the repository is complete.
>>>> I have a feeling that the announcement was a bit premature (I mean SC
>>>> 4.4 ready for installation). I checked via aptitude from command line
>>>> and when I saw the suggestions I said "no thanks" and opted out. Loads
>>>> of kept back packages, packages to be removed etc.
>>> Thanks. Any ideas how I can make two of my machines back to work?
>>
>> The announcement might have been a bit premature, but now it looks like
>> everything is there. There were no blocked packages for me and nothing was
>> removed.
>>
>> Two machines? Never update a spare machine until you are sure :-)
>> Just try updating again:
>> $ sudo aptitude update
>> $ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
>>
> I still get 119 conflicts.... so am staying put

The recommended way to install version upgrades is to use apt-get:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

For some reason unknown to me the aptitude full-upgrade command
doesn't work here.


Regards, Myriam
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