25 Sep
2017
25 Sep
'17
4:29 p.m.
On Sunday 24 Sep 2017 20:17:51 Greg Madden wrote:
Sunday 24 September 2017 07:55:26 pm D. R. Evans
wrote:
When I installed Trinity over Debian 8.7 starting on Friday 12 May this year,
I couldn't get apt or aptitude to recognize the TDE R14.0.4 repositories as on
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/DebianInstall. So I did the installation
manually with dpkg, using the repository web addresses for Jessie given on the
page. I first attempted to install the tdebase-trinity meta-package, then
manually located and installed all the packages dpkg required me to install
before it would set up tdebase-trinity.
I don't recall being asked to uninstall any Debian package, and indeed, I
would have been extremely worried if I had been asked to do so.
As I installed the packages, I moved them to a DebianInstalled/ directory, so
I can see what I actually installed by looking in there. Doing ls on that
directory, it seems I have not installed any desktop-base-"anything", so I
must still be using the Debian desktop-base, which would presumably have been
installed when I did a fresh install of Debian 8.7 in March this year.
I am very happy with my TDE installation, so my advice to Doc would be to do
the same as me, and just install tdebase-trinity and its dependencies.
After I had installed Trinity, I was still able to use KDE4 rather than
Trinity by selecting KDE4 in the KDM menu, but I very quickly decided that I
preferred Trinity, and I have never been back to KDE4 since perhaps a week
after I installed Trinity. I installed TDM a few days after I installed
Trinity, and use the TDM login now.
I can run the best KDE4 apps, such as Konqueror-KDE4, in Trinity, and thus get
the best of both worlds, by putting the appropriate path for the KDE4 version
in the Command field for a new menu item in Menu Editor. To run Konqueror-KDE4
in Trinity, I put the command /usr/bin/konqueror in the Command field.
Chris
Greg Madden wrote on 09/24/2017 07:42 PM:
Only one Desktop base can be installed at a time.
FYI, I run lots of different apps on my TDE, all work.
greg
On Sunday 24 September 2017 05:20:54 pm D. R.
Evans wrote:
Yes; I already added the oracle package yesterday, and it appears to be
working fine.
I *think* that virtualbox-dkms is used only when vb is being installed, so
it should be safe to remove it; but I'm not absolutely certain.
So:
1. Looking at the packages that will be removed, will I still be able
to
run virtualbox if virtualbox-dkms is removed? [I think that the answer
is yes, but I would like some assurance from someone who is more
certain
than am I.]
2. And then what about desktop-base? The version that is currently
installed is from the official debian stable repository, so I don't
think that I should be removing it. So what should I do about this
conflict?
Doc
If you are using Debian, upgrading to Stretch, the following apply.
Virtualbox is no longer in Stretch, if you use Vbox you issues are
larger.You desktop-base-trinity replaces the Debian
desktop-base
OK; so I should let aptitude do what it wants to do, which is to remove
the
debian desktop-base, right?
One more question as a follow-on to this: when TDE is installed, is it
still possible to run KDE despite the fact that the debian desktiop-base
is
no longer in place? (Just in case some program doesn't work on TDE and I
have to go back to KDE temporarily.)
Doc