said Timothy Pearson: | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | Hash: SHA224 | | > upgrade on my notebook machine went relatively uneventfully, so i | > thought it safe to upgrade desktop machine. and boke everything | > to the extent that i do not have x on the desktop machine at all. | > | > am running ubuntu-12.04LTS | > | > from a terminal, having added the specified lines to my | > sources.list and commented out the old tde lines, i did: | > | > sudo apt-get update | > sudo aptutide upgrade | > | > due to server congestion i had to run the latter several times. | > it then specified a problem, to be solved by removal of | > libcal2b-trinity and libqt-perl. | > | > the installation blows up in a fashion too long to list here -- | > i'd have to type it in character by characer, and it includes "25 | > not fully installed or removed" when i went back at it with sudo | > apt-get dist-upgrade. that command blows up with: | > | > dpkg: error | > processing | > /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ub | >untu12.04.0+pr138_all.deb (--unpack): | > trying to | > overwrite | > '/opt/trinity/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/devices/cdrom_unmount_ | >encrypt.png', which is also in package kdebase-kio-plugins-trinity | > 4:3.5.13.2-0ubuntu12.04.0+0 | > dpkg-deb (subprocess): data was killed by signal (Broken pipe) | > dpkg-deb (subprocess): error: subprocess <decompress> returned | > error exit status 2 | > Errors were encountered while | > processing: | > /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ub | >untu12.04.0+pr138_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an | > error code (1) | > | > not real sure how to proceed. ideas? | > | > thanks. | > -- | > dep | | I'd try this: | dpkg -i --force-all | /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ubun |tu12.04.0+pr138_all.deb dpkg --configure -a | apt-get dist-upgrade | | The first command forces tdelibs to unpack over the old tdelibs, | which should solve your conflict problems. I've run into this on a | few machines myself but it was always due to me upgrading from R14 | preliminary to R14 final, not from 3.5.13.x to R14. thanks. that shows some progress, but the next-to-last command shows many errors, as does the last, which suggests the trouble involves the fact that i do not have libtdepim1a-trinity. trying to install that, though, results in an error that it conflicts with libkcal2b-trinity. -- dep The shortest distance between you and great fingerstyle guitar playing? The new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available now at www.MarjorieThompson.com

said Slávek Banko: | On Sunday 21 of December 2014 02:39:35 dep wrote: | > upgrade on my notebook machine went relatively uneventfully, so i | > thought it safe to upgrade desktop machine. and boke everything | > to the extent that i do not have x on the desktop machine at all. | > | > am running ubuntu-12.04LTS | > | > from a terminal, having added the specified lines to my | > sources.list and commented out the old tde lines, i did: | > | > sudo apt-get update | > sudo aptutide upgrade | > | > due to server congestion i had to run the latter several times. | > it then specified a problem, to be solved by removal of | > libcal2b-trinity and libqt-perl. | > | > the installation blows up in a fashion too long to list here -- | > i'd have to type it in character by characer, and it includes "25 | > not fully installed or removed" when i went back at it with sudo | > apt-get dist-upgrade. that command blows up with: | > | > dpkg: error | > processing | > /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ub | >untu12.04. 0+pr138_all.deb (--unpack): | > trying to | > overwrite | > '/opt/trinity/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/devices/cdrom_unmount_ | >encrypt.pn g', which is also in package | > kdebase-kio-plugins-trinity | > 4:3.5.13.2-0ubuntu12.04.0+0 | > dpkg-deb (subprocess): data was killed by signal (Broken pipe) | > dpkg-deb (subprocess): error: subprocess <decompress> returned | > error exit status 2 | > Errors were encountered while | > processing: | > /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ub | >untu12.04. 0+pr138_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned | > an error code (1) | > | > not real sure how to proceed. ideas? | > | > thanks. | | I see as a problem that you used 'aptitude upgrade' instead | 'aptitude dist-upgrade'. On my test machine I use aufs, thanks to | which I could re-testing of the upgrade from 3.5.13.2 to R14.0.0. | | In the case of 'aptitude dist-upgrade' on my test machine upgrade | always go smoothly. Where I used 'apt-get dist-upgrade' there is a | problem with tdelibs-data, as in your case. sorry -- i wrote it wrong. it was dist-upgrade -- i always use it when it says that otherwise packages will be held back. got it all installed now, apparently (only time "apt-get install -f" ever fixed anything for me!) and have a new problem: at startx (it makes me log in at a terminal), i get x and a box that says "Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation." so. how might i check my installation? -- dep The shortest distance between you and great fingerstyle guitar playing? The new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available now at www.MarjorieThompson.com

It is good practise not to mix apt-get and aptitude, choose one and use it exclusively. So either "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" or "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade". Aptitude is better at working though dependency and conflict issues but apt-get is also fine. On 21 December 2014 at 12:54, Slávek Banko &lt;slavek.banko(a)axis.cz&gt; wrote: