26 Feb
2022
26 Feb
'22
5:50 p.m.
> I am wondering if anybody else has done a fresh
installation of Devuan
> Chimaera recently, or something close to my own OS. My hunch is that this
> apparent conflict between gtk2 and gtk3 will start to affect other TDE
> users.
The signficant words here are "fresh installation"; yours, by comparison to
mine, is already starting to smell just a bit ripe.
I have installed devuan daedalus on a t470 and on my ryzen, basicly without
issues (madness of freedesktop GNOMEs does not count). GTK2 is still there,
firfox-esr works as expected. My last chimaera installation was in December
- again without problems. But I have to say that I only use programs from
the repositories, not from 3rd party sites, so palemoon, iceweasle etc. are
not installed.
Aside from palemoon, etc., I don't install third-party packages. These
browsers, palemoon, vivaldi, etc., are stand-alone items, nothing added. I
don't update them until necessary, so their repositories are not enabled in
my sources.list. And I might add, if I didn't have palemoon, for example, I
would not have been able to use an internet browser at all, unless by booting
into the XFCE desktop.
I got my laptop in early December, so your installation is older than my
laptop itself.
So I'd suggest you first do "apt-get update && aptitude
distupgrade" and
then fix/remove any packages not from the repositories. You get a list of
offenders via:
I already did an upgrade and dist-upgrade. Now I am attempting to trace any
offenders.
$ apt-show-versions | grep --invert-match
"\(uptodate\|not\ installed\)"
These packages will survive any upgrade and cause praublems.
Nik
A "fresh" installation would be (for comparison to my own system)
sometime
within the past few days.
Bill