Replace KDM over lightdm

[sharopo]

Thanks. (:

[claydoh]

oops, well within then next couple months I'm planning a clean install so that should take care of everything.

you might be fine in simply adding the repo again,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/ppa

, running "apt-get update" and "apt-get -s dist-upgrade" to see if there are any errors (the "-s" is to run it as a simulation), if there are no errors, you can run dist-upgrade and after the process is done, remove the old Precise ppa entry. I think the packages between the 2 are identical other than in name so you are safe as you are right now, other than tracking down the odd KDE package until you do your clean install, if you choose to wait.

[claydoh]

Yes, perhaps, but the upgrader tool disables all PPA and other external repos before it does so, and edits these disabled entries to point to the new repo ( I think - my recollection may be off) - at the least, all the PPA entries are labelled in their titles that they were disabled for the upgrade.

[sharopo]

oops, well within then next couple months I'm planning a clean install so that should take care of everything.

[coderus]

this happened after using backports repository and then updrade to 12.10

[claydoh]

same results /:

~$ sudo apt-get install kdm=4:4.9.3-0ubuntu0.1~ppa2
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:
 kdm : Depends:[COLOR=#000080][B]libkworkspace4abi2 (= 4:4.9.3-0ubuntu0.1~ppa2[/B])[/COLOR] but [COLOR=#b22222][B]4:4.9.3-0ubuntu1~[U]ubuntu12.04.1~ppa3[/U][/B] [/COLOR]is to be installed
       Depends:[COLOR=#0000cd][B] kde-workspace-kgreet-plugins (= 4:4.9.3-0ubuntu0.1~ppa2)[/B][/COLOR] but[B][COLOR=#b22222] 4:4.9.3-0ubuntu1~[U]ubuntu12.04.1~ppa3[/U] [/COLOR][/B]is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Above highlights added by moi

if you are on 12.10 system, you probably have added the PPA info incorrectly. this is why I had though you were on 12.04. Your package should be what is shown below:
(the apt-cache policy command list not only what version is installed/installable plus where it came from)

lark@lark-Latitude-D630:~$ [B]apt-cache policy  libkworkspace4abi2 [/B]
libkworkspace4abi2:
  Installed: [B]4:4.9.3-0ubuntu0.1~ppa2[/B]
  Candidate: 4:4.9.3-0ubuntu0.1~ppa2
  Version table:
 *** [B]4:4.9.3-0ubuntu0.1~ppa2 [/B]0
[B]        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu/[SIZE=3] [COLOR=#b22222][U]quantal[/U][/COLOR][/SIZE]/main amd64 Packages[/B]
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.9.2-0ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/universe amd64 Packages
     4:4.9.2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe amd64 Packages

Since your system is looking for 12.04 packages, there are a couple of conflicts at least simply due to the differences in package versioning between the 2 Kubuntu releases.

[sharopo]

Thanks, that finally installed it.

[coderus]

just install this package

[sharopo]

Are you saying go ahead with the previous command then install this package over it?

[coderus]

then install this and wait for updates with big versions...
http://pkgs.org/ubuntu-12.04/kubuntu....deb/download/

[sharopo]

it looks like that will work, but it looks like it will remove a lot of things that may or may not be important, what do you think?

~$ sudo apt-get install kdm=4:4.9.2-0ubuntu2.1 libkworkspace4abi2=4:4.9.2-0ubuntu2.1 kde-workspace-kgreet-plugins=4:4.9.2-0ubuntu2.1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  kde-window-manager kde-window-manager-common kde-window-manager-gles
  kde-workspace kde-workspace-bin kscreensaver kscreensaver-xsavers
  kubuntu-desktop libplasmagenericshell4 plasma-dataengines-workspace
  plasma-desktop plasma-netbook plasma-widgets-addons plasma-widgets-workspace
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kdm
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
  kde-workspace-kgreet-plugins libkworkspace4abi2
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 downgraded, 14 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,016 kB of archives.
After this operation, 36.0 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

[coderus]

sudo apt-get install kdm=4:4.9.2-0ubuntu2.1 libkworkspace4abi2=4:4.9.2-0ubuntu2.1 kde-workspace-kgreet-plugins=4:4.9.2-0ubuntu2.1

[sharopo]

$ apt-cache show libkworkspace4abi2
Package: libkworkspace4abi2
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 363
Maintainer: Kubuntu Developers <kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Source: kde-workspace
Version: 4:4.9.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04.1~ppa3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libkdecore5 (>= 4:4.9.3), libkdeui5 (>= 4:4.9.3), libplasma3 (>= 4:4.9.3), libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.6.1), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libxau6
Description-en: library for the kdebase workspace
 This package contains libraries needed for the kdebase workspace.
 .
 This package is part of the KDE base workspace module.
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
Original-Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>

Package: libkworkspace4abi2
Source: kde-workspace
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 355
Maintainer: Kubuntu Developers <kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4:4.9.3-0ubuntu0.1~ppa2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libkdecore5 (>= 4:4.9.3), libkdeui5 (>= 4:4.9.3), libplasma3 (>= 4:4.9.3), libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.6.1), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libxau6
Filename: pool/main/k/kde-workspace/libkworkspace4abi2_4.9.3-0ubuntu0.1~ppa2_amd64.deb
Size: 117304
MD5sum: a7530fa45bc89447b52af208eaa7ecce
SHA1: 875e944c98db9e2e245871bb7ddb0a93358c4ef8
Description-en: library for the kdebase workspace
 This package contains libraries needed for the kdebase workspace.
 .
 This package is part of the KDE base workspace module.
Original-Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>

Package: libkworkspace4abi2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Installed-Size: 355
Maintainer: Kubuntu Developers <kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Source: kde-workspace
Version: 4:4.9.2-0ubuntu2.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libkdecore5 (>= 4:4.9.2), libkdeui5 (>= 4:4.9.2), libplasma3 (>= 4:4.9.2), libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.6.1), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libxau6
Filename: pool/universe/k/kde-workspace/libkworkspace4abi2_4.9.2-0ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
Size: 60334
MD5sum: 49dc04add10736656f8e6c23d2374e15
SHA1: e19a3a61d3226026fa24f14b1f24b4073f087ad7
SHA256: fa4b5b4a708f5f3f6c16c6e2be8f1a91d1d96f150bc502d6942d1f60fe7bf1a7
Description-en: library for the kdebase workspace
 This package contains libraries needed for the kdebase workspace.
 .
 This package is part of the KDE base workspace module.
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
Description-md5: 041012dfa0c56b32003d5b1e5865b1db
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-active-desktop, kubuntu-active, edubuntu-desktop-kde

Package: libkworkspace4abi2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Installed-Size: 355
Maintainer: Kubuntu Developers <kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Source: kde-workspace
Version: 4:4.9.2-0ubuntu2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libkdecore5 (>= 4:4.9.2), libkdeui5 (>= 4:4.9.2), libplasma3 (>= 4:4.9.2), libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.6.1), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libxau6
Filename: pool/universe/k/kde-workspace/libkworkspace4abi2_4.9.2-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 60178
MD5sum: 64519ab75ee28e5a309a0d30c83871bd
SHA1: 08b04ca1d45017927f3b8f32dce5491f0dce9b25
SHA256: f88adb54773974eb3d0c729830549fbbcd3311029e1479eee85e3879c2887036
Description-en: library for the kdebase workspace
 This package contains libraries needed for the kdebase workspace.
 .
 This package is part of the KDE base workspace module.
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
Description-md5: 041012dfa0c56b32003d5b1e5865b1db
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-active-desktop, kubuntu-active, edubuntu-desktop-kde

[coderus]

apt-cache show libkworkspace4abi2 ?

[sharopo]

edited, sorry