<div dir="ltr">FYI, <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/">Cheese</a> is a GNOME webcam application without hellish dependencies.<br>It works perfectly fine in my KDE environment.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Dotan Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 23:54, Tzafrir Cohen <<a href="mailto:tzafrir@cohens.org.il">tzafrir@cohens.org.il</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:19:53PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:<br>
>> In trying to install Digikam 1.7 on Kubuntu 10.10 I got myself into<br>
>> dependency hell. I was installing some Natty packages with dpkg.<br>
><br>
> Why would you do that?<br>
><br>
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</div>Because I had it working in a previous distro, and my Digikam database<br>
is now the 1.7 version.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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> Try aptitude. Its resolver may be smart enough to offer you some other<br>
> options.<br>
><br>
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</div>I've been through about twenty of aptitude's suggestions, they all<br>
involve removing some 200 packages such as Firefox and Plasma.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> BTW: 'aptitude -f' is something you should not use. It's not the<br>
> equivalent of 'apt-get -f'. The equivalent of 'apt-get install -f' is<br>
> normally 'aptitude install'<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Oh, that's good to know. Thanks! I know that yum's -f is "force" but<br>
apt-get's -f is "fix". It was bad to assume that aptitude's -f would<br>
be as that of apt-get!<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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> Also try the the option '--dry-run' of aptitude / apt-get to get a list<br>
> of packages it wants to remove.<br>
><br>
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</div>No need, aptitude tells me what it wants to remove anyway.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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