Hello all.

I am using Debian Sarge 3.1 and have had no trouble using apt-get install until now.

I have been wanting to download a few packages but get errors.

first.
k3b - I apt-get install k3b
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 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:
k3b: Depends: dbus-qt-1 (>= 0.23.4) but 0.23.2-3qt1 is to be installed
Depends: k3blibs but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I have dbus-qt-1 installed but I don't understand the rest of the message, why will k3blibs not install?
How can I find what broken packages I have? I have looked at synaptics and it says that everything has been upgraded with no broken packages.

I also want to install mplayer and I get this message:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
mplayer-doc ttf-freefont netselect
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mplayer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/4000kB of archives.
After unpacking 8540kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 107203 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mplayer (from .../mplayer_1.0pre7-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mplayer_1.0pre7-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/mplayer', which is also in package mplayer-586
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mplayer_1.0pre7-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I get the same when using synaptics.

Have I inadvertently deleted something that would cause such messages?

Regards

For the first one. The dependency asks for a higher version than is available on the server. The second seems to be a problem with a package you installed earlier. Can you perhaps remove that first and see if it works then?

I have the same problems too and I once opened a thread but no one replied in it

Well sometimes you won't get replies than you can bump it by posting again. Or let it slip, that's up to you. You can't expect everyone reads everything or has time to do it even though they know the answer to it.

Thanks for the reply.

Uninstalled a previous program to get Mplayer working but k3b is still being a pain but that doesn't matter.

Again thanks for the help.

Regards

k3b will work as soon as the right version is in there. You might want to consider pinning this package on testing. Then only that package is from etch and you can keep sarge for the rest of the packages. You can also file a bug report and wait till it's fixed.