[solved] upgrade nuked kde - package version clash

[doctordruidphd]

Doing a dist-upgrade today killed kde. kdm is there, the greeter comes up, but there is no option for kde or plasma int he session menu. (I'm using unity, and wishing I didn't have to...)

Tried reinstalling plasma-desktop, but no go.

Tried installing kde-window-manager, says it needs kde-workspace-bin. Tried installing kde-workspace-bin, turns out kde-window-manager wants -ubuntu2, but -ubuntu1 is what's in the repository.

Hope this straightens out. FYI, beware...

[claydoh]

Re: upgrade nuked kde - package version clash

Duh! there are many many many packages being built, not all deps are uploaded -- it takes time to build and upload the hundreds of kde packages alone let alone any Ubuntu ones

Do make sure to check what apt is telling you it is going to do. Removal of any package is something to be concerned about, in most cases.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: upgrade nuked kde - package version clash

Yeah, I thought 4.7 was safe at this point, guess not. I saw it removing kwin, didn't realize the replacement was not fully in place.

[wizard10000]

Re: upgrade nuked kde - package version clash

I do this as a nightly cron job, but it might be wise to dump a list of installed packages before doing a dist-upgrade. It won't help you this time, but

dpkg --get-selections > ~/Documents/installed-programs.txt

will dump a list of installed programs to ~/Documents.

Then, if anything does mess up you can do this -

sudo dpkg --set-selections < ~/Documents/installed-programs.txt

and

sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

and dpkg should put everything back the way it was before the failed upgrade.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: upgrade nuked kde - package version clash

solved (et coagulad?) (sorry)

Did the dist-upgrade for today, then apt-get install --reinstall kubuntu-desktop.
Dragged in the missing packages, starts up fine now.

Did notice one error, what appears to be a packaging error in python-apptools:

greenman@Wolfenstein:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for greenman: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree    
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
 gcj-4.5-jre-lib [color=red]python-apptools[/color]
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

'
then

greenman@Wolfenstein:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall python-apptools
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:
 python-apptools : Depends: [color=red]python-traitsui[/color] but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

and

greenman@Wolfenstein:~$ apt-cache search python-trait
python-traits - Manifest typing and reactive programming for Python
python-traitsbackendqt - PyQt backend for Traits and TraitsGUI (Pyface)
python-traitsbackendwx - WxPython backend for Traits and TraitsGUI (Pyface)
[color=red]python-traitsgui[/color] - Traits-capable windowing framework

python-traitsui misspelled in the python-apptools package? Or just the right package not there yet?