Please can someone help

Am relatively new to Linux and KDE.

I have been using Kubuntu Karmic with KDE 4.3.5 for some time now. It's great.

Today there was a pile of upgrades (I like to stay up to date). I applied these, and got errors about dependencies.

Stupidly I rebooted the machine and now I get to the KDE login screen but cannot start KDE - I get the disk icon then get returned to the splash screen.

I can login to a terminal

I have tried <apt-get install> - this gives

The following packages have unmet dependencies
kdelibs-bin
kdelibs5-dbg
kdelibs5-dev
libplasma3

I now try <apt-get -f install> - this gives

The following extra packages will be installed
kdelibs5 kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-dev

Then I get a screen full of errors like

dpkg: error processing......blah blah

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Can someone please help??

Thanks,

John

Oh dear.

First make sure that you have an up to date repository cache.

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sudo apt-get update

Then try to update KDE again.

I have reloaded the cache - but how do I update KDE?

What command should I type in the terminal.

Thanks for your patience - not too familiar yet...

John

Try sudo apt-get help. It should give you instructions on what subcommand to give it in order to update your packages. Just replace help with what it specifies and run the command.

Hello,
same problem on my laptop (kubuntu).

Any suggestions?

Here's the best way to upgrade to KDE 4.4. Works on Kubuntu and Linux Mint 8 KDE CE:

Enable the backports repo by checkmarking the following repo in either synaptic or kpackagekit:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu karmic main

then do
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Do this at your own risk of course. KDE 4.4 does have a few bugs yet but bug fix type updates to 4.4 have been coming in hot and heavy since it's release which have so far fixed the major glitches such as no desktop and the disappearing login screen.

Check the following thread out on the Linux Mint forums if you encounter problems. The users who have updated "Helena" KDE CE to 4.4 have posted a few work arounds to the major glitches:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 25&start=0

Again, if you keep the backports repo (above) selected after the update to 4.4 you should get the bug fixes on a regular basis if they weren't included in the initial upgrade. Good luck!