[SOLVED] KDE 4.9.1 update broken

[Sam Poison Oak]

Hello fellas
Using Mint 13 KDE 4.9 and after updating to 4.9.1 (using the kunbuntu/backports) I no longer have installed dolphin, network applet(sistray), network config tool on sys-setings, also muon apps are no longer available... It seems like something went wrong but there wasn't any warnings or something :/
How do I connect to a wifi network using CLI?
A dist-upgrade woud solve my problems or I have to install each package not installed manually one by one?

Thanks for reading and have a nice day/night ^^

EDIT: Installing kde-standard package solved the issue

[zerozero]

afaik you should have done a dist-upgrade in the first place when trying to go from 4.9 to 4.9.1

How do I connect to a wifi network using CLI?

http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse might be useful

[Sam Poison Oak]

Well, thanks... Anyways.. Why do my problem happened? Are there some logs stored when an update is done?

[zerozero]

why the problem happened in the first place? difficult to say but i would guess that if you did a plain apt upgrade or used mintupdate (with the custom levels 1 to 3 enabled) to perform the upgrade some dependencies weren't resolved and pieces of the system failed to update to 4.9.1 or even worst was uninstalled.

you can check the last events with

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cat /var/log/apt/history.log

[Sam Poison Oak]

Well. Thanks. I used mintupdate levels 1 to 3 and nothing more, its the first time that this happens.

Please check the logs:
term.log http://pastebin.com/42jKXC6t
history.log http://pastebin.com/sCXxpHfP
I don't find any anormal on these but the muons.

By the way I can't connect to wifi using cli, every scanning command on the Wifi-HowTo says that its not installed or not available, I'll try lan later but I'm afraid that the networking modules aren't installed of something.
I'm on kernel 3.2.0-30 but on any other kernel the problems stay.

[zerozero]

as i was afraid the upgrade you did uninstalled large chunks of your system: just check your term.log and see all the removing; furthermore as i said as well

some dependencies weren't resolved

properly and the upgrade ended with the error

Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

that as far as i can see is because of muon: this part here

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dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of muon:
 muon depends on libmuonprivate1; however:
  Package libmuonprivate1 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing muon (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of muon-updater:
 muon-updater depends on libmuonprivate1; however:
  Package libmuonprivate1 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing muon-updater (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of muon-notifier:
 muon-notifier depends on muon-updater; however:
  Package muon-updater is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing muon-notifier (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of muon-dbg:
 muon-dbg depends on libmuonprivate1 (= 1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1); however:
  Package libmuonprivate1 is not installed.
 muon-dbg depends on muon (= 1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1) | muon-updater (= 1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1) | muon-notifier (= 1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1); however:
  Package muon is not configured yet.
  Package muon-updater is not configured yet.
  Package muon-notifier is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing muon-dbg (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of muon-discover:
 muon-discover depends on libmuonprivate1; however:
  Package libmuonprivate1 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing muon-discover (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of muon-installer:
 muon-installer depends on libmuonprivate1; however:
  Package libmuonprivate1 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing muon-installer (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

you can at this point try

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sudo apt-get -f install

and

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sudo dpkg --configure -a

to see if you can recover from those broken packages and then run again

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sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

i'm not entirely sure that this will recover fully the system, for that you'll need some kind of net connection and re-download one of the kde meta-packages, kde-standard is the smaller and will do the trick.

good luck

[Sam Poison Oak]

Thanks again!
EDIT: I've found the kde-standard package on the kubuntu/backports ppa but its size is 13.7Kb meaning that I need iNet for complete the install... Any suggestion or I have to reinstall the system ?
EDIT2: I managed to repair the system(I think so). Installed kde-standard package over ethernet(restarted the router not mint guilty) and everything seems to be find by now...
Wich .deb manager comes installed by default? Gdebi?

[zerozero]

glad you sorted it out.
but remember: kde-standard is a minimal installation; as the description says

This metapackage includes the KDE Plasma Desktop and a selection of the most
common used applications in a standard KDE desktop.

meaning that probably some of the app that you lost the other day were not reinstalled by this process, the intention was to give you a easy way (through a meta-package) to fix your system. now if you see that something is missing you should, with synaptic, install the missing bits.

Wich .deb manager comes installed by default? Gdebi?

i think (might be wrong) that you are talking about synaptic (it's mint's package manager >> and not only mint of course)

[Sam Poison Oak]

nope, I was talking about gdebi. I have to install it from synaptic cause I was wondering if it was default on kde, I need it to install debs xD
So wich kde-metapackage is needed for a full install like the one on a vanilla mintKde?

[zerozero]

ahh sorry
i'm on debian and here i have gdebi-kde (you *should* have it too in main mint)

regarding the meta-packages question, it goes like this: now that you installed a higher version of kde than the one shipped with mint, you moved away from the defaults meaning that the usual setup "on a vanilla mintkde" is not possible anymore; you can either go with kde-standard and build your own desktop (not completely because you already start from a very good foundation) or kde-full and bring in everything and the kitchen sink.

[Sam Poison Oak]

Ok i mixed somethings up with the vanilla thingy
Thanks againg. I'll go with kde-full cause I want the dog's house too
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