No workspace after upgrade to KDE 4.7.4

[Thomas Olsen]

On Thursday 22 December 2011 15:46 Loïc Grobol wrote:
> Ah, no, I usually use apt-get, but apt-get upgrade just updated
> amarok. Neither workspace nor workspace-bin is installed and I have
> the same candidates. Do you think I should try with aptitude (which
> I'd need to install in that case)?

You could try to run:

sudo aptitude safe-upgrade --full-resolver

> 2011/12/22 Thomas Olsen <thomas at tanghus.net>:
> > On Thursday 22 December 2011 15:15 Loïc Grobol wrote:
> >> Hey, thanks a lot,
> >> 
> >> I had indeed activated the beta ppa, but as far as I can see,
> >> commenting it out did nothing. apt-get safe-upgrade doesn't seem to be
> >> a valid command (mistaken for aptitude safe-upgrade, perhaps?),
> >> upgrade only installed some amarok packages and kde-workspace can't be
> >> installed.
> > 
> > Yeah, mistaken for aptitude command which I normally use. Some years ago
> > aptitude wasn't installed per default, but I can see it is now. Did you
> > run safe-upgrade?
> > 
> > Try to run 'apt-cache policy' against kde-workspace and
> > kde-workspace-bin. Mine says:
> > 
> > $ apt-cache policy kde-workspace-bin
> > kde-workspace-bin:
> >  Installed: 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1
> >  Candidate: 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1
> >  Version table:
> >  *** 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1 0
> >        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu/ oneiric/main
> > amd64 Packages
> >        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >     4:4.7.3a-0ubuntu0.1 0
> >        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64
> > Packages
> >     4:4.7.1-0ubuntu5 0
> >        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
> > 
> > $ apt-cache policy kde-workspace
> > kde-workspace:
> >  Installed: 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1
> >  Candidate: 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1
> >  Version table:
> >  *** 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1 0
> >        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu/ oneiric/main
> > amd64 Packages
> >        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >     4:4.7.3a-0ubuntu0.1 0
> >        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64
> > Packages
> >     4:4.7.1-0ubuntu5 0
> >        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
> > 
> >> > sudo apt-get install kde-workspace
> >> 
> >>   Les paquets suivants contiennent des dépendances non satisfaites :
> >>    kde-workspace : Dépend: kde-workspace-bin (>=
> >> 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1) mais ne sera pas installé
> >>  E: impossible de corriger les problèmes, des paquets défecteux sont
> >> en mode « garder en l'état »
> >> 
> >> kde-workspace depends of kde-workspace-bin (>=
> >> 4:4.7.4-0ubuntu0.1~ppa1) but will not be installed
> >> E: can't solve issues, corrupted(?) packages are in “keep as is”(?)
> >> mode
> >> 
> >> 2011/12/22 Thomas Olsen <thomas at tanghus.net>:
> >> > On Thursday 22 December 2011 14:23 Loïc Grobol wrote:
> >> >> Hello, all
> >> >> 
> >> >> I have made the upgrade from the ppa and saw it deleted
> >> >> plasma-workspace. I supposed it was for some kind of replacement
> >> >> so I
> >> >> didn't bother. But now all I get when logging to gui is a black
> >> >> screen with the mouse pointer only. I logged to a terminal and
> >> >> try to install back plasma. apt-get won't do it and doesn't
> >> >> find kde-workspace either.
> >> >> 
> >> >> I obviously want to get back some gui, so any help would be
> >> >> greatly
> >> >> appreciated.
> >> > 
> >> > Did you happen to have the beta ppa enabled? I saw that it was to
> >> > do the same and traced it down to that. If you can't get to a
> >> > console using Ctrl-Alt-F1 then boot up in recovery mode.
> >> > 
> >> > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubuntu-ppa-beta-oneiric.list
> >> > 
> >> > and comment out the repository:
> >> > 
> >> > # deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/beta/ubuntu oneiric
> >> > main
> >> > 
> >> > Run 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get safe-upgrade' followed by
> >> > 'sudo apt- get install kde-workspace' [*] and reboot. Your
> >> > "upgrade" probably deleted some other packages you will need to
> >> > re-install.
> >> > 
> >> > [*] If you're booted in recovery mode 'sudo' isn't necessary.
> >> > 
> >> > --
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> >> > 
> >> > Thomas Olsen
> >> > 
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