can not resolve depedecies tryig to install kubuntudesktop

[Dave Stroud]

Am trying to install kubuntu desk-top am getting unresolveable dependicies . As far as I can tell all repositories are set u. Run apt-get install an get the followingsudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
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:
  kubuntu-desktop: Depends: kde-guidance but it is not going to be installed
                   Recommends: kde-guidance-powermanager but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@bigdavesr-desktop:/home/bigdavesr# I am using 8.04
     thanks

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in kubuntu-meta.

[Val3r10 (vleomporra)]

I guess this is somewhat related to python???-minimal related libraries, which kde-guidance depends on.
I had the same problem after a minimal install (alternate) of kubuntu 8.04.1, skipping at first the desktop
When tried installing with the metapackage, I got the same problem above.

And found a dependencies breakdown with python packages 2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1
The working version is actually 2.5.2-2ubuntu4, shipped with the kubuntu-8.04-*.iso, not the 8.04.1 ... ;-)

So I removed the 4.1 version, then installed the v4 by the above iso file, mounted with apt-cdrom add and left alone within sources.list This way I forced the installation of the right python, then
# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
worked like a charm... :-D

Hope this helps.
Thanks

Valerio.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

This issue was discussed somewhere else, but since I don't know where I can't link the bugs.