On Wednesday 17 June 2009 10:45:31 David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 10:21:02 David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> >> This is not a conflict between kde4 and kde3. You can tell because the
> >> kde3 packages are all prefixed with kdemod3-*, which does not appear
> >> here.
> >>
> >> This is a conflict between KDE4 and KDE4-unstable. I'd try resolving it
> >> by completely uninstalling all the KDE(4) packages and then reinstalling
> >> them (this time from kde-unstable).
> >>
> >> DR
> >
> > DR,
> >
> > I have never installed anything from kde4 prior to trying to install
> > kde4- unstable. The only kde4 that is on my box would be from kde3
> > packages built against the kde4 runtime that have pulled in kde4base,
> > etc. as dependencies.
>
> AFAIK, none of the kdemod3 packages are dependent on KDE4 packages.
> They probably came in with some KDE app you installed. (e.g., k3b)
>
> > How would I uninstall this stuff so I can proceed with the kde4-unstable
> > install??
>
> 1) pacman -Q | grep kde | grep -v kdemod3
>
> 2) Issue a "pacman -Rs" on every package that shows up from step one.
>
> If it pushes back at you telling you that one of those packages can't be
> uninstalled because it's a dependency for something else, then that'll
> tell you the reason why the kde4 packages got installed in the first
> place. At that point then you'll have to make the decision to uninstall
> whatever app it is that needed the kde4 packages.
>
> DR
OK,
I think I got it:
[10:58 archangel:/opt/kde] # ( IFS=$'\n'; for i in $(pacman -Q | grep kde |
grep -v kdemod3); do echo "remove: ${i%%\ *}"; done )
remove: kdebase-runtime
remove: kdelibs
remove: kdemultimedia
remove: kdesvn
[10:58 archangel:/opt/kde] # ( IFS=$'\n'; for i in $(pacman -Q | grep kde |
grep -v kdemod3); do pacman -Rs ${i%%\ *}; done )
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: k9copy: requires kdebase-runtime
:: kdemultimedia: requires kdebase-runtime
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: k3b: requires kdelibs
:: kdebase-runtime: requires kdelibs
:: kdemultimedia: requires kdelibs
:: kdesvn: requires kdelibs
:: kdiff3: requires kdelibs
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: k3b: requires kdemultimedia
checking dependencies...
Remove (2): kdesvn-1.3.1-1 subversion-1.6.2-3
Total Removed Size: 33.00 MB
Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]
(1/2) removing kdesvn
[######################################################################] 100%
(2/2) removing subversion
[######################################################################] 100%
warning: /etc/xinetd.d/svn saved as /etc/xinetd.d/svn.pacsave
warning: /etc/conf.d/svnserve saved as /etc/conf.d/svnserve.pacsave
[10:59 archangel:/opt/kde] # for i in k9copy kdemultimedia kdebase-runtime; do
pacman -Rs ${i}; done
checking dependencies...
Remove (1): k9copy-2.3.2-1
Total Removed Size: 3.44 MB
Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]
(1/1) removing k9copy
[######################################################################] 100%
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: k3b: requires kdemultimedia
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: kdemultimedia: requires kdebase-runtime
[11:01 archangel:/opt/kde] # for i in k3b kdemultimedia kdebase-runtime; do
pacman -Rs ${i}; done
checking dependencies...
Remove (7): k3b-1.66.0alpha2-1 polkit-qt-0.9.2-1 normalize-0.7.7-3
mpg123-1.7.3-1 kdemultimedia-4.2.4-1 kdebase-runtime-4.2.4-1
cdrdao-1.2.2-2
Total Removed Size: 120.38 MB
Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]
(1/7) removing k3b
[######################################################################] 100%
(2/7) removing polkit-qt
[######################################################################] 100%
(3/7) removing normalize
[######################################################################] 100%
(4/7) removing mpg123
[######################################################################] 100%
(5/7) removing kdemultimedia
[######################################################################] 100%
(6/7) removing kdebase-runtime
[######################################################################] 100%
(7/7) removing cdrdao
[######################################################################] 100%
kdemultimedia not found, searching for group...
error: 'kdemultimedia': not found in local db
kdebase-runtime not found, searching for group...
error: 'kdebase-runtime': not found in local db
I'll report back after I try again....
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