KDE 3 and xdm

[Kimball Larsen]

So I totally screwed up my system this past week messing with Gentoo.. wo=
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the wise, gentoo and powerbook G3's don't mix too well.  That being said.=
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here's where I am now:

I did a basic home/office install... then I uninstalled kde 2.2.2 and=20
installed kde 3.0 using rpm. =20

Being a huge fan of apt, I want to use it to install the rest of the stuf=
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want on this box....=20

But whenever I run apt-get I get this:

 apt-get check
Processing File Dependencies... Done
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kdebase: Depends: /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess but it is not installable
           Depends: /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers but it is not installable
           Depends: /etc/X11/xdm/Xwilling but it is not installable
           Depends: /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
[root@localhost quangdog]#

So if I follow the suggestions it gives and do an 'apt-get -f install' ap=
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merrily informs me that it will uninstall all the kde 3 packages that I j=
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installed.... grrr...

Near as I can tell, there is some sort of a conflict with the XFree86-xdm=
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package, but I can't figure out what...

any suggestions?

-Kimball