A bit of a hangup in Synaptic when updating 4.9.2

[wedgetail]

Updated KDE 4.8.3 to 4.9.2 about 2 days ago, and it ran fine after that.  There was a couple of oddities including a crash.  These may have gone after a re-boot.  Then about two hours ago I saw there was some news on the Ksnapshot front in a Forum thread and decided to do an update a few minutes ago.

Synaptic updated quite a number of files but has left 7 files marked with the yellow star, Installed (upgrable), but further action now grayed out, ie can not do apply-apply.

A bit of head scratching after which I re-booted, changed to the heanet server thinking my Australian server perhaps giving me trouble.  The problem the same, Following files seem to trap Synaptic::

Copied from the properties 'common'  field

kde-edu-marble
kde-graphics-gwenview
kde-graphics-ksnapshot
kde-plasma-addons
               kdeplasma is a compilation of plasma items ( runners, applets, plasmoids ) for kde4
libkdcraw
libkexiv2
libkipi

kde-edu-marble
   can individually be marked for upgrade

kde-graphics-gwenview:
 Depends: libkipi (= 4.9.2)
 Depends: libkipi.so.9

But I managed to lockup Synaptic here, when copying above from properties.  Have to reboot because I tried to mark for upgrade.

After re-start I found the trick to get a bit more information, don't try mark for upgrade, just look at properties.  I got thrown by the first file actually accepting individual mark for upgrade.  Found two further pieces of information.

kde-graphics-ksnapshot:
 Depends: libkipi.so.9

kde-plasma-addons:
 Depends: libkexiv2.so.11

Seems to indicate that somehow I have run in to a dependencies problem.  A bit above me so I will just let it rest for the moment as system runs for the moment, as long as I stay away from ksnapshot and gwenview.

[Bald Brick]

Updated KDE 4.8.3 to 4.9.2 about 2 days ago, and it ran fine after that.  There was a couple of oddities including a crash.  These may have gone after a re-boot.  Then about two hours ago I saw there was some news on the Ksnapshot front in a Forum thread and decided to do an update a few minutes ago.

Synaptic updated quite a number of files but has left 7 files marked with the yellow star, Installed (upgrable), but further action now grayed out, ie can not do apply-apply.

A bit of head scratching after which I re-booted, changed to the heanet server thinking my Australian server perhaps giving me trouble.  The problem the same, Following files seem to trap Synaptic::

Copied from the properties 'common'  field

kde-edu-marble
kde-graphics-gwenview
kde-graphics-ksnapshot
kde-plasma-addons
               kdeplasma is a compilation of plasma items ( runners, applets, plasmoids ) for kde4
libkdcraw
libkexiv2
libkipi

kde-edu-marble
   can individually be marked for upgrade

kde-graphics-gwenview:
 Depends: libkipi (= 4.9.2)
 Depends: libkipi.so.9

But I managed to lockup Synaptic here, when copying above from properties.  Have to reboot because I tried to mark for upgrade.

After re-start I found the trick to get a bit more information, don't try mark for upgrade, just look at properties.  I got thrown by the first file actually accepting individual mark for upgrade.  Found two further pieces of information.

kde-graphics-ksnapshot:
 Depends: libkipi.so.9

kde-plasma-addons:
 Depends: libkexiv2.so.11

Seems to indicate that somehow I have run in to a dependencies problem.  A bit above me so I will just let it rest for the moment as system runs for the moment, as long as I stay away from ksnapshot and gwenview.

You may have stumbled on this problem:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,109804.msg938578.html#msg938578

So the question is: do you really need digikam? If you don't, start by upgrading libkipi and let Synaptic remove digicam and anything else it wants to uninstall.  After that you should be able to install or upgrade the other held packages.

(After that you can start you can start praying that Archie will be able to package a new version of digicam....)

[wedgetail]

Bald Brick
Thank you, I am rather embarrassed and it is not going to be the last time the way my memory goes. I remember that I did read your findings about this problem very recently. Then last night when I saw the last few comments in the thread you refer to I thought, ah now the Ksnapshot and Gwenview is sorted out.

When the Synaptic started playing funny, in my view,  I had just discovered that my internet speed was down about 10 times.  That was on the hop between me and the ISP, I really wondered if that might had been part of the strange behaviour of synaptic.

Now I have got it. No I do not need Digikam at present but I am happy to know that there is likely to be in future.

I had noticed that if I tried to mark libkipi for update that Digikam would be removed. Now I will go ahead and do that and see, I notice that now my normal speed is back again as well.

Yes, it worked, I had to mark individually for upgrade the 4 files left, but then the upgrade went smooth.

I will mark as solved.