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On Saturday 26 December 2009 23:29:32 bn wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have finally updated from kde 3.5 to kde-base 4.3 |
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> Everything smooth so far, but when I try to install, for example, |
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> kdeplasma-addons, a blocks hell comes out. |
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> This is the (long) output of emerge -tpuv qt-gui: |
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[snip] |
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> I admit I do not have the slightest idea of what to do to solve that. I |
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> can't understand from above which are the packages bringing conflicting |
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> things, and even the conflicts are unclear. I can't think anything apart |
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> from unmerging all of Qt and retrying -but even then, I fear that |
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> something else is the blocking combination and I find myself without Qt. |
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> I tried googling but, even if some similar blocks comes out, I don't see |
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> *this* block mess coming out. |
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Basically, the most important thing to sort out is those qt blocks. You appear |
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to be running an arch machine as version 4.5.3-r1 wants to be merged, right? |
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Trying to merge just qt-gui (or any other individual qt apps) is not really |
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going to help much, as portage does not do a deep search. Try: |
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emerge -avuND world |
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and see if portage sensibly sorts out what should replace what. You might need |
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a very recent portage for this to work automagically. If not, you can either |
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unmask portage, emerge portage and try again, or if you don't like that |
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approach, you must do it the older, longer way: |
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remove every single qt and/or qt-* package from world (qt should be treated as |
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pure dependencies unless you are developing qt apps) |
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unmerge *everything* in qt |
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emerge -avuND world |
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and let portage sort out what qt versions must be installed. |
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Then you must remerge all of KDE4 and every other package that uses qt. Don't |
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skimp this step becuase it 'takes a long time' - you will surely regret it |
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(random mysterious failures etc that only go away when you finally do update |
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all of KDE) |
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Once qt is out of the way, proceed with any other blockers that remain |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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