kde-devel package broken

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Unfortunately, we are
not able to fix and find the bug because your description of the bug
didn't have enough information in it.

Please provide us the error log when you try to install those four packages, because this issue in most likely to come from those packages

When I add all the 4 given above I get the following error.

 sudo apt-get install kde-devel kdesdk kdelibs4-dev kdebase-dev libkonq4-dev
Password:
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kdelibs4-dev: Depends: libxml2-dev but it is not going to be installed
                Depends: libxslt1-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I included libxml2-dev and libxslt1-dev and then following dependencies are not met.

sudo apt-get install kde-devel kdesdk kdelibs4-dev kdebase-dev libkonq4-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libxml2-dev: Depends: libxml2 (= 2.6.26.dfsg-2ubuntu4) but 2.6.27.dfsg-1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

the last line i.e. libxml2-dev is the issue. as it is dependent on 2.6.26. It should be updated to 2.6.27.

Let me know which error log to upload. will Upload the same.

The version for both libxml2 and libxml2-dev for edgy is 2.26.dfsg-2ubuntu4.
You should try to downgrade to this version in synaptic or whatever you use, and then try to re-install

Thanks for your bug report. Could you please add your /etc/apt/sources.list file to the bug report?

I am also having this problem. I am trying to install (compile) the latest version of kpilot to fix the sync problems present in the current Ubuntu repository version. To do this, I need the kde-devel package installed.

I get this output when attempting to install the package:
-------------------------------------------------------
$ sudo apt-get install kde-devel
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:
  kde-devel: Depends: kdesdk (>= 4:3.4.3) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libarts1-dev (>= 1.4.2) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: kdelibs4-dev (>= 4:3.4.3) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: kdebase-dev (>= 4:3.4.3) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libkonq4-dev (>= 4:3.4.3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
--------------------------------------------------------

I have attached my current Sources.list file.

Thanks for your bugreport.

Please run:
$ sudo apt-get install kde-devel -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true -o Debug::pkgDepCache::AutoInstall=true

and attach the output here?

Thanks,
 Michael

The output from that command is displayed below:

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$ sudo apt-get install kde-devel -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true -o Debug::pkgDepCache::AutoInstall=true
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Installing kde-core as dep of kde-devel
Installing kdebase as dep of kde-core
Installing kappfinder as dep of kdebase
Installing kpager as dep of kdebase
Installing kpersonalizer as dep of kdebase
Installing ktip as dep of kdebase
Installing kdelibs as dep of kde-core
Installing kdesdk as dep of kde-devel
Installing cervisia as dep of kdesdk
Installing kapptemplate as dep of kdesdk
Installing kbabel as dep of kdesdk
Installing kbugbuster as dep of kdesdk
Installing kcachegrind as dep of kdesdk
Installing kdesdk-kfile-plugins as dep of kdesdk
Installing kdesdk-kio-plugins as dep of kdesdk
Installing kdesdk-misc as dep of kdesdk
Installing kdesdk-scripts as dep of kdesdk
Installing kmtrace as dep of kdesdk
Installing kompare as dep of kdesdk
Installing kspy as dep of kdesdk
Installing kdelibs4-dev as dep of kspy
Installing libarts1-dev as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing libqt3-mt-dev as dep of libarts1-dev
Installing libcupsys2-dev as dep of libqt3-mt-dev
Installing libgnutls-dev as dep of libcupsys2-dev
Installing libtasn1-3-dev as dep of libgnutls-dev
Installing liblzo-dev as dep of libgnutls-dev
Installing libgl1-mesa-dev as dep of libqt3-mt-dev
Installing libglu1-mesa-dev as dep of libqt3-mt-dev
Installing libacl1-dev as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing libattr1-dev as dep of libacl1-dev
Installing libaspell-dev as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing hspell as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing libbz2-dev as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing libidn11-dev as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing libjasper-1.701-dev as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing libopenexr-dev as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing liblualib50-dev as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing liblua50-dev as dep of liblualib50-dev
Installing lua50 as dep of liblua50-dev
Installing libsasl2-dev as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing libxslt1-dev as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing libavahi-client-dev as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing libavahi-common-dev as dep of libavahi-client-dev
Installing libdbus-1-dev as dep of libavahi-client-dev
Installing libavahi-qt3-dev as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing gettext-kde as dep of kdelibs4-dev
Installing kuiviewer as dep of kdesdk
Installing kunittest as dep of kdesdk
Installing poxml as dep of kdesdk
Installing umbrello as dep of kdesdk
Installing kdebase-dev as dep of kde-devel
Installing libkonq4-dev as dep of kde-devel
Installing qt3-designer as dep of kde-devel
Starting
Starting 2
Investigating libglu1-mesa-dev
Package libglu1-mesa-dev has broken dep on libglu1-mesa
  Considering libglu1-mesa 75 as a solution to libglu1-mesa-dev 2
  Holding Back libglu1-mesa-dev rather than change libglu1-mesa
Investigating libgl1-mesa-dev
Package libgl1-mesa-dev has broken dep on mesa-common-dev
  Considering mesa-common-dev 1 as a solution to libgl1-mesa-dev 2
  Holding Back libgl1-mesa-dev rather than change mesa-common-dev
Investigating libqt3-mt-dev
Package libqt3-mt-dev has broken dep on libgl1-mesa-dev
  ...

Same here.

sources.list follows:
# Ubuntu supported packages
# GPG key: 437D05B5
deb http://en.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main restricted
deb http://en.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted

deb-src http://en.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main restricted
deb-src http://en.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted

# Ubuntu community supported packages
# GPG key: 437D05B5
deb http://en.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty universe multiverse
deb http://en.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security universe multiverse

deb-src http://en.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty universe multiverse
deb-src http://en.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security universe multiverse

I forgot to mention that I use KUbuntu 7.04 (Feisty)

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I just had this problem, with Ubuntu Gutsy, and I just wanted to note that i could solve it by downgrading from
kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.8-0ubuntu3.3 to kdelibs4c2a_3.5.8-0ubuntu2