No workspace after upgrade to KDE 4.7.4

[Thomas Olsen]

On Thursday 22 December 2011 15:15 Loïc Grobol wrote:
> Hey, thanks a lot,
> 
> I had indeed activated the beta ppa, but as far as I can see,
> commenting it out did nothing. apt-get safe-upgrade doesn't seem to be
> a valid command (mistaken for aptitude safe-upgrade, perhaps?),
> upgrade only installed some amarok packages and kde-workspace can't be
> installed.

Yeah, mistaken for aptitude command which I normally use. Some years ago 
aptitude wasn't installed per default, but I can see it is now. Did you run 
safe-upgrade?

Try to run 'apt-cache policy' against kde-workspace and kde-workspace-bin. 
Mine says:

$ apt-cache policy kde-workspace-bin
kde-workspace-bin:                                                                                                                                                                  
  Installed: 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1                                                                                                                                                
  Candidate: 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1                                                                                                                                                
  Version table:                                                                                                                                                                    
 *** 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1 0                                                                                                                                                      
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu/ oneiric/main 
amd64 Packages                                                                                            
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status                                                                                                                                                    
     4:4.7.3a-0ubuntu0.1 0                                                                                                                                                          
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 
Packages                                                                                                   
     4:4.7.1-0ubuntu5 0                                                                                                                                                             
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages                                                                                                           

$ apt-cache policy kde-workspace
kde-workspace:                                                                                                                                                                      
  Installed: 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1
  Candidate: 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu/ oneiric/main 
amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.7.3a-0ubuntu0.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 
Packages
     4:4.7.1-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages


> 
> > sudo apt-get install kde-workspace
> 
>   Les paquets suivants contiennent des dépendances non satisfaites :
>    kde-workspace : Dépend: kde-workspace-bin (>=
> 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1) mais ne sera pas installé
>  E: impossible de corriger les problèmes, des paquets défecteux sont
> en mode « garder en l'état »
> 
> kde-workspace depends of kde-workspace-bin (>=
> 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1) but will not be installed
> E: can't solve issues, corrupted(?) packages are in “keep as is”(?) mode
> 
> 2011/12/22 Thomas Olsen <thomas at tanghus.net>:
> > On Thursday 22 December 2011 14:23 Loïc Grobol wrote:
> >> Hello, all
> >> 
> >> I have made the upgrade from the ppa and saw it deleted
> >> plasma-workspace. I supposed it was for some kind of replacement so I
> >> didn't bother. But now all I get when logging to gui is a black screen
> >> with the mouse pointer only. I logged to a terminal and try to install
> >> back plasma. apt-get won't do it and doesn't find kde-workspace
> >> either.
> >> 
> >> I obviously want to get back some gui, so any help would be greatly
> >> appreciated.
> > 
> > Did you happen to have the beta ppa enabled? I saw that it was to do the
> > same and traced it down to that. If you can't get to a console using
> > Ctrl-Alt-F1 then boot up in recovery mode.
> > 
> > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubuntu-ppa-beta-oneiric.list
> > 
> > and comment out the repository:
> > 
> > # deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/beta/ubuntu oneiric main
> > 
> > Run 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get safe-upgrade' followed by 'sudo
> > apt- get install kde-workspace' [*] and reboot. Your "upgrade" probably
> > deleted some other packages you will need to re-install.
> > 
> > [*] If you're booted in recovery mode 'sudo' isn't necessary.
> > 
> > --
> > Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards
> > 
> > Thomas Olsen
> > 
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Thomas Olsen