Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2014, 11:21:26 schrieb Alexandre:
Can you post a screenshot of you searching for the keyword powersave in Synaptic. It is very very unlikely that it is not there.
well, problem solved :) it turned out that - my /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trinity.list file (which kept the entries for trinity) had vanished during my initial several 'dist-upgrades' (forced by errors) - once fixed, aptitude found tdepowersave, which would uninstall/replace kpowersave upon installation
after next reboot, tdepowersave starts automatically and works as expected. thanks for your help.
Werner