KDE 4 and KDE 3

[rbrown3rd]

I have been running both KDE3 and KDE4 on my laptop for a while now. I have seen KDE4 improve to the point that I decided to run them both on my desktop machine which is presently running KDE3. When I did a

sudo apt-get install kde4-core

I got the following:

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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 kde4-core: Depends: kdebase-kde4 (>= 4:4.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdebase-workspace (>= 4:4.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdelibs5 (>= 4:4.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdepimlibs5 (>= 4:4.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I am becoming a more experienced user but I am not at the point where I can decipher why my system will not install the dependencies above.

[Fintan]

Re: KDE 4 and KDE 3

This should clear that up:
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.1.1

It is not kde4-core that you need but:

Quote from: http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.1.1

2. If you do not have kubuntu-kde4-desktop installed, simply type sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install kubuntu-kde4-desktop and answer the questions. Both of these options are to be typed at the command prompt.

[rbrown3rd]

Re: KDE 4 and KDE 3

Thanks a bunch. I am going to try that now.

Update:

That worked. Thanks much for the help. I am a little confused by the new format of the desktop. Items from my KDE3 desktop show up but they seem to be just shortcuts rather than the actual files. But, that is part of my learning curve.