I don't know whether this is known bug. It is the first thing I come across when installing KDE3, so I can imagine it is. kubuntu-desktop-kde3 depends on ttf-bitstream-vera but it's not available anymore in karmic as you can see here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/nl/jaunty/ttf-bitstream-vera Here is a patch: http://haar.student.utwente.nl/~julius/patches/no_ttf-bitstream-vera.patch I just removed the package from the dependencies. This allows me to install everything, but somehow also brings in some KDE4 packages on my system. Another option would be to add this package to the KDE3 repository.

Yes, they are indeed fixed! Thanks a lot! I came across a few more issues though. When I install kubuntu-desktop-kde3 it also brings in some KDE4 packages. I was able to figure out some causes and a few other things: The control file of kde-style-qtcurve-kde3 I think should have a line: Provides: kde-style-qtcurve Right now it will trigger the install of gtk2-engines-qtcurve which depends on kde-style-qtcurve which is the KDE4 package. I think that many things may work better if such lines (provides with the package name without -kde3 appended) would be added to all packages. I also had a problem before where AcetoneISO was looking for konqueror and did not like my konqueror-kde3 although it works fine with it. When packages would need the KDE4 versions, they'll specify a specific minimum version anyhow, so I think adding such a line would not break anything. Another small issue is kdebase-kde3 recommending kdm instead of kdm-kde3. Changing this seems to prevent kdm from getting installed. foomatic-db-hpijs is recommended by kubuntu-desktop-kde3 but has been replaced by foomatic-db. apport-qt and openoffice.org-kde are recommended by kubuntu-desktop-kde3 but they both depend on KDE4 libraries. Similarly hplip-gui is recommended by kubuntu-desktop-kde3 but is uses libqt4. Some of the recommended packages aren't available for me: kdebluetooth-kde3, kubuntu-docs-kde3, strigi-applet, system-config-printer-kde-kde3 I hope this helps. Let me know if you need more information. I can try to dig some more then :) Julius kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net wrote: