kpackage doesn't open

[rapattack]

Hi I am having trouble with quite a few things since the new install of debian4 on this machine. I am still rather new but can follow instructions. kpackage is not opening fully. The progress meter shows that it is done but it stops short of being functional. I can't click and use anything. Sort of stalls I guess. This happened after changing the sources.list but I don't understand much about that as a friend told me what to do so I could get updates/upgrades/install packages as I wasn't able to until this was changed. The thing is though many of the apps I try to install have unmet dependencies and when I try via the konsole to get the dependencies they don't install and I am going around in circles. Also there is no icon for the floppy drive anymore so I can't access that. It has all happened at once. I get a few stalls too when on the net so I generally have to power off the pc via the button on the front of the box as the system is frozen so I can't use the mouse. I hope I am making sense and I don't know if any of these problems are related.

[Vergil83]

First thing first, in the konsole run

apt-get -f install

This should fix any unmet dependencies. After this does its thing, also from the konsole try running kpackage (type kpackage and enter). Post any errors that are printed.

[rapattack]

Ah now I understand that command. I tried it before but did it wrong. I added to the end of that line skype. I didn't know on it's own it does something which it did. Thanks!
ok well kpackage didn't open and froze the system so i just had to reboot. Ah skype opens now. So that is ok. Sorry I wasn't able to give you an error that I saw in konsole when I did that command because of the system freeze. It is an error that I have seen for the past few days. Should i install something other than kpackage so i can reinstall kpackage? I did try synaptic a couple of days ago but it never appeared in the menu. I also just tried to open it via the konsole and it said that it is not there.

[rapattack]

OK I tried these things....i was told they are other kde whatever things....sorry I don't know the terminology. But they do the same thing or similiar to synaptic and kpackage.

car@car:~$ su root
Password:
car:/home/car# apt-get install kynaptic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package kynaptic
car:/home/car# apt-gte install adept
bash: apt-gte: command not found
car:/home/car# apt-get install adept
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
adept: Depends: adept-manager but it is not going to be installed
Depends: adept-installer but it is not going to be installed
Depends: adept-updater but it is not going to be installed
Depends: adept-notifier but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
car:/home/car# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 97 not upgraded.
carla:/home/car#

[Vergil83]

You forgot the s (ksynaptic). Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list file?

[devils casper]

I would suggest you to install/use Synaptic only. Its much better than KSynaptic and Adept.

su -
apt-get install synaptic

[rapattack]

Yes i just got synaptic installed. I haven't used it to install anything yet but it opens and updates ok.

This is the /etc/apt/sources.list:
# deb Index of /debian etch main

deb Index of /debian etch main
deb-src Index of /debian etch main

deb Debian -- Security Information etch/updates main
deb-src Debian -- Security Information etch/updates main

deb Index of /debian unstable main contrib

[devils casper]

Sources.list file is OK. Include non-free to have more packages. Add non-free word at the end of etch/updates main line.

[rapattack]

Ah ok how do i edit the file again? Sorry I know I have done this before but I can't remember. Some command using nano? Or can I do it using synaptic?

[devils casper]

You can use nano, edit or edit directly throw synaptic.

su -
nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Or
Press Alt+F2 and type this

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Or
Open Synaptic -- Settings -- Repositories -- Select source line and add non-free in Sections text box.