[tde-devels] Re: how to discover what package is required

Jim via tde-devels wrote: Thank you please answer Slaveks question how you exactly run TDE. usually I log in via the TDM (login manager) it then takes care to set all the pieces needed to run TDE properly. If you did so - what is the status of your user profile - any old stuff or whatever - perhaps try with a fresh user >> tdebase-trinity usually pulls the whole set of packages needed to run >> TDE. > Well, maybe it should, but I guess it depends on what one exactly > means "to run TDE". exactly this is what we are trying to find out - because TDE is the desktop it covers all the pieces. However you are talking about korganiser (the calendar piece as part of the tdepim) > Sorry it wasn't clear above... when I try to configure korganizer's date > and time (i.e., the way it presents the date and time, I am not trying > to change the system time), using the korganizer menu item > "Settings/Configure Date & Time ..." I get that message. This actually invokes the part for the locale settings (I think it is part of the tdebase and you have already installed it) >> what source did you use - what is mentioned in the article? > Yes, I used exactly the lines in the article, except I put "buster" in > for "<your-distribution>". I commented out the deb-src lines, since I > was not planning to d/l any source at this point. >> tdebase-trinity usually installs what is needed - in this case did you >> install also locale packages as noted in the article? > I did not. My native language is English, and I am OK with the > default locale. (If there was a Canadian English locale I might have > installed it, but I don't see any locale in the listing whose name > suggests that to me.) this is good so - it was just a fact check question > ADDITIONAL INFORMATION which may or may not help: > When I start up kcontrol, the pane on the left which should have all > sort of things (in an older version of TFE on another computer I have > "Appearance & Themes", "Desktop", "Internet & Network", and so on) > is empty. So, again, it can't find whatever it is looking for. > According to the output of an incantation I found on line, there are > 1037 packages with "trinity" in the name which I have not (yet) installed. > I guess I could just bite the bullet and start randomly installing > things, but if anyone can share some wisdom, it would be most appreciated. dpkg -l | grep trinity dpkg -l | grep trinity | wc -l what packages and how many do you have? are they fully installed (line starts with ii) if packages are not fully installed or missing - this could explain the issue. I installed yesterday the RPi4 by installing tdebase-trinity & co - about 50 or 100 packages. Then I installed tdepim and some other that pulled many dependencies - about 700+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting