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Bug 24

Summary:	kubuntu-desktop-kde3 requires qt4/kde4 packages
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Wade Berrier <wberrier>
Component:	tdebase	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugwatch, darrella
Priority:	P5
Version:	3.5.10
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:

Description Wade Berrier 2008-12-29 10:04:03 CST

I've removed all of the kde4/qt4 related packages on my box, and in doing this had to remove the 'kubuntu-desktop-kde3' meta package.

When I use apt to reinstall 'kubuntu-desktop-kde3', it wants to install the following packages:

  adept apport-qt gdebi-kde gwenview hplip-gui install-package kdebase-runtime kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 kdelibs-bin kdelibs5 kdesudo kubuntu-desktop-kde3 kwin-style-crystal language-selector-qt
  libkdecorations4 libkipi-common libkipi5 libphonon4 libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer libqt4-qt3support libqt4-script libsoprano4 libstrigiqtdbusclient0 phonon phonon-backend-gstreamer python-kde4
  python-qt4 software-properties-kde soprano-daemon update-manager-kde


Those shouldn't be needed for a kde3 system.

Comment 1 Timothy Pearson 2008-12-31 16:26:07 CST

From time to time this bug seems to crop up, so I'll explain why here: ;-)

First, it looks like you might have tried to install when there was a broken kubuntu-desktop-kde3 package in the PPA, hence Adept and a few others are in the install list.

However, even if you were to try it again now, you will still notice a few KDE4 packages being installed.  This is because several useful Kubuntu programs, such as Jockey and guidance-powermanager, require them to run.  Also, KDE3 and KDE4 share quite a few data files (artwork, icons, etc), and rather than having KDE3 and KDE4 maintain their own separate data files (a big waste of space), I simply install the KDE4 data files and fill in the few missing KDE3 data files from a smaller KDE3-specific data package. 

If you don't want any traces of KDE4 on your system, you will have to give up some functionality in the form of Jockey and guidance-powermanager.  This is not my decision; the simple fact is that those are Kubuntu packages, written and maintained by the Kubuntu developers, and therefore no working KDE3 variant for Intrepid exists.