Problem with kdeedu-kde4 and kstars-kde4 during Update of kde4

[Ralf Folkerts]

Binary package hint: kdeedu-kde4

During Update to the latest kde4 today the Adept Manager wanted to delete several Packages:

kde4 (the Meta-Package)
indi-kde4
kde4-amusements
kdeedu-kde4
kstars-kde4

I checked with the apt-get update/apt-get upgrade and got:

ralf@flounder:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  kdeedu-kde4 kstars-kde4
The following packages will be upgraded:
(long list of packages)
209 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 472MB of archives.
After this operation, 4563kB of additional disk space will be used.

The two "problem" packages:
ralf@flounder:~$ sudo apt-cache policy kstars-kde4
kstars-kde4:
  Installed: 4:4.1.0-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1
  Candidate: 4:4.1.1-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1
  Version table:
     4:4.1.1-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
 *** 4:4.1.0-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.0.5-0ubuntu1~hardy1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Packages
     4:4.0.3-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages

ralf@flounder:~$ sudo apt-cache policy kdeedu-kde4
kdeedu-kde4:
  Installed: 4:4.1.0-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1
  Candidate: 4:4.1.1-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1
  Version table:
     4:4.1.1-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
 *** 4:4.1.0-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.0.5-0ubuntu1~hardy1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Packages
     4:4.0.3-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages

One randomly choosen example from another kde4-package

ralf@flounder:~$ sudo apt-cache policy okular-kde4
okular-kde4:
  Installed: 4:4.1.0-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1
  Candidate: 4:4.1.1-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1
  Version table:
     4:4.1.1-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
 *** 4:4.1.0-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.0.5-0ubuntu1~hardy1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Packages
     4:4.0.3-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages

This is not too dramatic but would be nice if this could be fixed - might be a Problem for people who, w/o further checking, accept incoming updates.

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

[Aldini (peter-kreinhoefer)]

it happens here too

[Andrej Krutak (andree182)]

here too... :)

[Orestes Mas (orestes)]

Here too. I think the cause is kstars-kde4 package both depends on AND conflicts with indi-kde4. So, kstars-kde4 is not installable and so isn't kdeedu-kde4

[Carsten Schlipf (carsten-schlipf)]

Also have the same problem. Or is indi-kde4 simply not updated yet?

> apt-cache show indi-kde4
Package: indi-kde4
Priority: optional
Section: science
Installed-Size: 1004
Maintainer: Kubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Source: kdeedu-kde4
Version: 4:4.0.5-0ubuntu1~hardy1
[...]

The version in the repository is still on 4.0.5

[Alessandro Sivieri (scattino)]

Here too.

It seems that indi-kde4 is not to be compiled (it is commented out from the debian/control file), and kstars declares, in the same file, to depend, replace and conflict with indi-kde4.
I think this is an error, as noticed by someone else in this same page.

[GarthPS (garthps)]

Yep I came here to say exactely the same as Alessandro (but I was too slow :) )

[JW (arch0njw)]

Okay... this is marked as "Fix Released", but I'm still seeing this problem. Is there a trick to this that isn't obvious that will correct this?

[Fabio Puddu (fabius)]

it's right! kstars-kde4 cannot be installed yet from the PPA. any explanation for marking this as fix released?

[GarthPS (garthps)]

Some news? some answers?

[Carsten Schlipf (carsten-schlipf)]

Seems to be fixed - finally.

Today a new version of indi-kde4 was published that fixes this problem.