4 Feb
2019
4 Feb
'19
12:39 a.m.
On Sunday 03 February 2019 14:05:36 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Sunday 03 February 2019 19.21:34 phiebie(a)drei.at
wrote:
Also I think that he might have better luck in trying Debian that is not quite
so bleeding-edge as Buster; maybe Stretch or Jessie?
FWIW, I am running Devuan Jessie with Trinity R14.0.6. Most of my issues have
disappeared since switching to Devuan (and prying myself free of systemd). I
recommend the netinstall disc, for me it worked better than their DVD.
Unlike some others here, I do occasionally use the KDE desktop, as well as
MATE, so I usually have them both installed, but rarely boot into them except
for troubleshooting, or for certain features that I can't get to work in TDE
(such as syncing my smartphone). But it is very rare nowadays that I ever go
into those other desktops, and I could do without them except for once in a
blue moon when nothing works right.
Someday I hope to see TDE pre-installed on a Devuan disc (and not ExeGNU,
which for me at least, doesn't work), but for now at least this setup works
pretty well.
Bill
Debian Buster, KDE 3.5.10. aptitude
As more and more software-updates clash with their dependencies against
what KDE needs or provides, I wanted to install trinity, preliminary
stable, alongside KDE. KDE should stay operational till I had
transferred my settings and programs aso to trinity.
No go!
Tdebase was fetched and seemingly installed, but when I restarted the
computer and wanted to start KDE, there was only a black screen with
the mouse-cursor and whatever I did with keyboard or mouse, nothing
happened. Cold reboot to clear memory, same thing.
Okay, let's then have a look at trinity. A blue screen with the logo
appeared and after a few seconds something like "no ..... available
check your installation"and I only could close that window via a warm
reboot. KDE gave me the black screen again and also TDE said
"check installation".
Installed TDE again, same results as before. Half an afternoon had
passed with no desktop still available.
Glad, that I had backupped my system before the experiment and could
restore my working KDE.
So there's also a clash between TDE and KDE, incredible!
Where should I look for the culprit for this disaster?
Kind regards.
OK, so...
a) You say Buster. Where did you install TDE from? What version? As far as
I know, for Buster you need the premilinary builds.
b) You say KDE 3.5.10. I seem to remember that install instructions said to
purge any KDE 3.5 elements befor install. So yes, KDE 3.5 and TDE clash.
It's known. I guess that's because thes share files with the same name, but
different contents.
If you want Trinity, you should better install on a system with no KDE, and
running a testing TDE on a testing Debian, I'm not really surprised you
encounter some problems.
These are caused by your environment, not by Trinity itself.
Thierry