[TriLUG] Broken kmail in Debian sarge?

[Sean Murphy]

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Tom Bryan wrote:
| I know that there are some Debian users on the list.
|
| I just installed Debian (sarge) for the first time last weekend.
Since then,
| I have stumbled across a couple of programs that I had forgotten to
install
| (kuickshow, xemacs, etc.)  I used dselect to install them.  No problems.
|
| This morning, I realized that I was missing xpdf.  dselect, choose
xpdf, tell
| it to install packages required by (and recommended by) xpdf.  Install.
|
| Now, I was in a meeting at the time, so I was only half paying
attention to
| dselect.  I'm pretty sure that all I did was to select xpdf and resolve
| through its dependecies.  I remember seeing that one library package was
| being uninstalled because it is now deprecated and another one
replaced it.
| When the install step ran, I saw that dselect was installing a bunch
of KDE
| apps.  I was running KDE at the time, but I'm not sure whether that could
| cause the problem I'm seeing.
|
| I have rebooted the machine since then.  I can boot up and log into
KDE fine.
| I use a Konsole and browse slashdot with Konqueror.  I can open KMail,
but
| when I attempt to access IMAP over SLL, I get an error dialog that says
| "Could not start process for newimap".  This worked just before I
installed
| xpdf.
|
| apt-get update
| apt-get upgrade
| says that I have 0 packages to install.
|
| Any ideas for troubleshooting?  Does apt-get or dselect write logs
somewhere
| about exactly which packages it is installing?  I'd like to track down
that
| deleted library package and figure out what might be broken.
|
| Thank,
| ---Tom
|
|
|
I'd try apt-get install kde  that will check that you have all the
programs and libraries that are considered a part of kde by the Debian
maintainers. I won't, however, promise that it won't break xpdf, but it
shouldn't.

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