MX Modified - Latest MX KDE 5.22 Using MX21 beta

[andyprough]

Did the update with the 2008 this morning. Got this message:

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Errors were encountered while processing:
 /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-jpWNZW/009-kdepim-runtime_4%3a20.08.0-1~np1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Please, in such a case, look up in the terminal log for any previous errors. Normally this is a file conflict or similar. The last lines aren't helpful, there need to be some display of what went wrong before.

Here's the error messages I had during installation in my /var/log/apt/term.log Norbert:

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Preparing to unpack .../08-kdepim-runtime_4%3a20.08.0-1~np1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking kdepim-runtime (4:20.08.0-1~np1) over (4:20.04.3-1~np1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-LVek3N/08-kdepim-runtime_4%3a20.08.0-1~np1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/kservices5/kcmldap.desktop', which is also in package libkf5libkdepim-data 4:20.04.3-1~np1
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

And my ending error was similar to Dan's:

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Errors were encountered while processing:
 /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-LVek3N/08-kdepim-runtime_4%3a20.08.0-1~np1_amd64.deb

Let me know if you want to see the entire term.log, or see that entire failed installation.

[norbert]

Thanks, I updated the package to include the necessary replace/breaks. Thanks for the report

[andyprough]

Thanks, I updated the package to include the necessary replace/breaks. Thanks for the report

OK great. We can just report our term.log error messages here for you as we go forward, I would imagine. If that's convenient for you.

[norbert]

Well, mailing me makes it easier for me, but here is also fine.

[andyprough]

Well, mailing me makes it easier for me, but here is also fine.

OK. Norbert at preining dot info, as on your blog?

[norbert]

Yup, that is fine! Thanks

[nathan2423]

Thanks very much!

Hi Nathan, ... As far as the Dolphin previews for Word documents are concerned, I am not that impressed - they are really just a big icon (see screenshot). I could be doing something wrong, as this is not a topic I'm very much aware of, but if this is the "preview", it doesn't give me any useful visual info. I do have calligra installed. Maybe there are other packages or settings I need to work with to get previews actually showing something useful?

Andy:

I know this is peripheral to the thrust of your thread but as to the Dolphin previews of Word and excel documents I wanted to give you an example of how this looks in the latest KDE versions (in this case, opensuse tumbleweed). It is highly useful in an office environment where people are working with lots of documents and spreadsheets. In Tumbleweed, to get this working I installed Calligra, and at that point the Configure Dolphin / Previews selection panel gave me almost twice as many preview options as before, including all sorts of office documents not there previously. I would really like to get this kind of functionality working in a version of MXLinux but so far all my efforts have failed. In my existing MX versions of KDE, after installing Calligra the preview options appear in the Dolphin Configuration panel, but the preview of these file types just does not work and gives only the big icon you mention. I am thinking this must have been a defect in previous versions of KDE that is now corrected, but I haven't been able to figure it out.

I think I have attached a screenshot here, but I am not good with attachments on this forum so not sure if it will work.

[andyprough]

Andy:

I know this is peripheral to the thrust of your thread but as to the Dolphin previews of Word and excel documents I wanted to give you an example of how this looks in the latest KDE versions (in this case, opensuse tumbleweed). It is highly useful in an office environment where people are working with lots of documents and spreadsheets. In Tumbleweed, to get this working I installed Calligra, and at that point the Configure Dolphin / Previews selection panel gave me almost twice as many preview options as before, including all sorts of office documents not there previously. I would really like to get this kind of functionality working in a version of MXLinux but so far all my efforts have failed. In my existing MX versions of KDE, after installing Calligra the preview options appear in the Dolphin Configuration panel, but the preview of these file types just does not work and gives only the big icon you mention. I am thinking this must have been a defect in previous versions of KDE that is now corrected, but I haven't been able to figure it out.

I think I have attached a screenshot here, but I am not good with attachments on this forum so not sure if it will work.

Hi Nathan, I've attached a screenshot showing my config options for preview - I don't see anything that would be helpful in this regard. Probably the folks at openSUSE have some special magic they are using. I used openSUSE for many years because their KDE was so superior to anyone else's, and they contribute a big percentage of the code to the KDE project. Might be worth sticking with openSUSE on the machines where you need advanced KDE functions.

[MAYBL8]

Looks like 5.19.5 hit today

[andyprough]

Looks like 5.19.5 hit today

No new blog post from Norbert. It's in his repos?