Kubuntu 9.04 + KDE 4.3.1 package version number issues

[Guest]

Hi everyone,

As subject suggest I'm on Kubuntu 9.04 (64bit if it makes a difference) and have upgraded o KDE 4.3.1 via PPA. It works fine, except for some minor issues, but... recently I've tried to install fontmatix 0.6, but it throws a list of unsatisfied dependencies

dependency problems prevent configuration of fontmatrix:
 fontmatrix depends on libqt4-network (>= 4:4.5.2); however:
 Version of libqt4-network on system is 4.5.2-0ubuntu2~jaunty1~ppa2.
 fontmatrix depends on libqt4-sql (>= 4:4.5.2); however:
 Version of libqt4-sql on system is 4.5.2-0ubuntu2~jaunty1~ppa2.
 fontmatrix depends on libqt4-svg (>= 4:4.5.2); however:
 Version of libqt4-svg on system is 4.5.2-0ubuntu2~jaunty1~ppa2.
 fontmatrix depends on libqt4-webkit (>= 4:4.5.2); however:
 Version of libqt4-webkit on system is 4.5.2-0ubuntu2~jaunty1~ppa2.
 fontmatrix depends on libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.2); however:
 Version of libqt4-xml on system is 4.5.2-0ubuntu2~jaunty1~ppa2.
 fontmatrix depends on libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.5.2); however:
 Version of libqtcore4 on system is 4.5.2-0ubuntu2~jaunty1~ppa2.
 fontmatrix depends on libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.5.2); however:
 Version of libqtgui4 on system is 4.5.2-0ubuntu2~jaunty1~ppa2

fontmatrix works, everything else works (as well as before installing fontmatrix), but apt-get will not let me install anything else until fontmarix dependencies are resolved. If I understand it correctly, I do have libraries required by fontmatrix, but they were install with KDE4.3.1 and have this weird "-0ubuntu2~jaunty1~ppa2" suffix (being not official and what not).

Now, the big question is, how do I make either:
1) forntmarix not to be so picky and realise that libqt4-* 4.5.2-0ubuntu2~jaunty1~ppa2 = libqt4-* 4.5.2
2) or change the version number of the library and lose that suffix?

[pansz]

Re: Kubuntu 9.04 + KDE 4.3.1 package version number issues


Hmm, ppa repositories are not officially supported, so you may have to contact the author to get something valuable.

My best advice is to stay away from ppa repositories, they're always know to cause problems.

IMO it may be better to use 9.10 than to use 9.04+ppa.

[Guest]

Re: Kubuntu 9.04 + KDE 4.3.1 package version number issues

Hi pansz,

thanks for the reply. I will most definitely be upgrading to 9.10, bet it is still 4 weeks until stable release.

I suppose the libraries I've mentioned will be officially supported (i.e. without suffixes) in kubuntu 9.10 + kde 4.3.1, so I'm thinking if it might be possible to install those libraries from ubuntu 9.10 repositories?