The packages at the KDE 4.2 repository for Kubuntu should have been updated when KDE 4.2.1 was released. Please ensure your repositories are updated. There are instructions available at the Kubuntu site for KDE 4.2

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sudo apt-get update

bcooksley wrote:The packages at the KDE 4.2 repository for Kubuntu should have been updated when KDE 4.2.1 was released. Please ensure your repositories are updated. There are instructions available at the Kubuntu site for KDE 4.2

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sudo apt-get update

Thank you for your suggestion.

I shudder to state that I have enabled all the intrepid-updates repositories in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. That is where it should be done for Kubuntu according to:

http://www.kubuntu.org/node/68

Still my packages are stubbornly showing KDE 4.2.0.

So I did something drastic. I uninstalled kubuntu-desktop and kde and then searched for all remaining packages using

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dkpg -l | grep KDE | grep ii | less

and removed them by hand.

After that I updated my repositories and reinstalled kubuntu-desktop and kde.

Still no luck: all the packages are still version-stamped KDE 4.2.0.

I am now convinced that something basic in the infrastructure is locking me in to KDE 4.2.0. I have not meddled with APT preferences. I am equally convinced that all aberrant behaviour I am noticing is due to not upgrading to 4.2.1 that should properly have happened many days ago.

Short of reformatting my / (root) partition is there anyway out of this groundhog-day behaviour?

Once again many thanks for you patience and persistence.

Chandra

It is quite possible that the repository hasn't been updated ( although most distributions have updated theirs ). You may wish to check to see if there are alternate repositories that offer KDE 4.2.1

bcooksley wrote:It is quite possible that the repository hasn't been updated ( although most distributions have updated theirs ). You may wish to check to see if there are alternate repositories that offer KDE 4.2.1

My etc/apt/sources.list file uses a secondary repo mirrored by my ISP and therefore download-quota-free. I also have the Australian archive as a fallback option.

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less /etc/apt/sources.list | grep updates

gives these non-comment lines:

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deb http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted
deb http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe
deb http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates multiverse
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates multiverse

I have done

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

to no avail.

I then went to the iiNet repo and downloaded from pool the file kdeadmin_4.2.1-0ubuntu3_all.deb to convince myself that the repo was indeed up-todate.

Finally, I tried installing that package using

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sudo dpkg -i kdeadmin_4.2.1-0ubuntu3_all.deb

and that failed because of unresolved dependencies, as expected.

The only thing unusual that I have recently done was to use aptitude instead of apt-get, but I think that hardly matters.

Have you any further kind suggestions?

Thank you.

Chandra

Following up on my last reply, I have inspected the state of my packages using synaptic which I have always found less buggy than adept.

In it, for the package kdeadmin, I found that both the installed version and the latest version are listed as 4:4.2.0-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.

Now I am unsure where in the chain the link is broken to prevent me having updates.

Could it be stale Package files? If so, how might I refresh my package database? I thought that apt-get update would do that.

Thank you.

Chandra

Oops! I might have been careless. I viewed the latest packages on synaptic on another machine running GNOME and the version of kdeadmin was indeed 4:4.2.0-0ubuntu1~intrepid1 on that machine as well.

So, perhaps it is not something amiss with my system, but rather that I need to wait for the KDE 4.2.1 to work its way through the K/Ubuntu repos in the coming weeks.

Thank you.

Chandra

Kate is shipped as part of kdeutils, so you may wish to check the version of that package also

bcooksley wrote:Kate is shipped as part of kdeutils, so you may wish to check the version of that package also

Thanks.

For some reason, KDE 4.2.1 is in kubuntu-exeprimental but has not made its way to the standard repositories. Please see:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... ostcount=7

Meanwhile, I have noticed that I am unable to input file names to save in kate. I have to touch a file in a terminal, select it on the GUI and save into that file. There appears to be much flakiness and loss of functionality in the kate and kile implementations for KDE 4.2.0. I hope this is not distro-specific!

So, perhaps its is best to wait for jaunty in April.

Chandra

While I run trunk, I have been unable to reproduce the save file name issue you describe.

I've had this problem with the empty list for upwards of six months now, on both my PC and my laptop. Reading through this thread, I checked my profile, and found only the default. (Warning: Do not delete this when it's the only profile! Kate would randomly crash for me within the first 15 seconds of use repeatedly after I deleted that session profile, leaving me with no session profiles. Saving a new profile stopped the constant crashing.)

Figuring sessions might still be the key, I checked under "Settings > Configure Kate..." I had checked in here MANY times in the past for an option related to the open recent list, but I checked under "Application > Sessions" this time.

For the "Behavior on Application Startup", I had "Start new session" markedI just now changed the setting to "Load last-used session", and I can open files, close Kate, open Kate, and have the files still be in the list of recently used files. Yay!

I have a related question:
How can I get my recent documents to show in the left panel as a list view (or at all for that matter)?

Kate: Version 3.6.0
KDE4.6