k3b reports broken installation after update?

[polskiecosse]

Might sound stupid and a very noobish thing to do, however when seeing k3b had an update i tired to update it however it kept failing. so i decided to remove k3b and then reinstall it. this message occurs now:

craig@penguin1:~$ sudo apt-get install k3b
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.

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:
k3b: Depends: k3b-data (= 1.0.5-1ubuntu4~hardy1) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

would anbody have an idea where i can hunt down a solution to this?

[polskiecosse]

Re: k3b reports broken installation after update?

SOLUTION:

Remove all k3b files

using bash:
sudo apt-get update
Sudo apt-get install k3b k3b-i18n libk3b3-extracodecs

works after installation but update with adpet not tried

[The Liquidator]

Re: k3b reports broken installation after update?

I found I had the issue of K3b being "held back" when doing apt-get upgrade. I think the reason for this is that the upgrade required the removal of a couple of packages and the installation of a couple of others.

I solved it by using adept, previewing the updates. This showed K3b as being in the upgrade list but "no change". Changing that to "upgrade" made it go through the process of removing the old dependencies and installing the new ones.

Don't ask me why it worked in adept but not in the terminal.

[assettt]

Re: k3b reports broken installation after update?

I found I had the issue of K3b being "held back" when doing apt-get upgrade. I think the reason for this is that the upgrade required the removal of a couple of packages and the installation of a couple of others.

I solved it by using adept, previewing the updates. This showed K3b as being in the upgrade list but "no change". Changing that to "upgrade" made it go through the process of removing the old dependencies and installing the new ones.

Don't ask me why it worked in adept but not in the terminal.

Used adept in the same way and it upgraded. Strangely only on my laptop did I get the adept notifier reporting the K3B upgrade but not on the desktop.

[Guest]

Re: k3b reports broken installation after update?

I found I had the issue of K3b being "held back" when doing apt-get upgrade. I think the reason for this is that the upgrade required the removal of a couple of packages and the installation of a couple of others.

I solved it by using adept, previewing the updates. This showed K3b as being in the upgrade list but "no change". Changing that to "upgrade" made it go through the process of removing the old dependencies and installing the new ones.

Don't ask me why it worked in adept but not in the terminal.

I had exactly the same problem, going on for a week or so, and this solution worked for me as well.
Thanks for the tip, Liquidator !