18 Mar
2018
18 Mar
'18
9:36 p.m.
On Sunday 18 March 2018 07:50:18 Frank Lienhard wrote:
There is another member here who was preaching the virtues of the Knoppix OS
to me; which I had tried about ten years ago, but found that it didn't suit
me. However, he didn't want to give up that I ought to try it. And I probably
will check it out, because I do like to try new things. Another person here
wants me to try Slax, and I am sure that I will try that, as well. And now I
find myself wanting to help you keep running TDE, because I do really like
the old KDE3 desktop, and hate pretty much all the newer ones (though I do
keep trying them out).
The one motif that is constant in all this is that we each get into our own
comfortable routines and habits, and because they work for us, we feel that
they are the best, or even the only right ways, of doing things.
If I can be of help, please let me know. I was thinking, I could upload my
working TDE-Trinity packages to a Dropbox account, and you could download
them directly from there, and use my quick & dirty method; but even then, you
might have other programs and dependencies which would cause this not to
work.
Bill
Your own
predicament sounds worse than mine, so I won't criticize your
choices about admin privileges being shared by more than one person. Not
an ideal situation,
I know. But timewise it made not much difference in this situation, and
it in fact the only computer I shared the admin rights. And yes ideal
wnt down the tubes in this case, the moment I broke my leg...
I was trying to help you avoid a total system
reinstallation, but
sometimes that's the only way.
I guess so. At least time wise in this situation.
The original idea was to keep it simple for my (old) mum and give her
KD3 "forever". Sadly in the early time, that didn't worked out with
trinity (not to be understood as a complain, it was just not ready at
that moment).
As I point out in my "quick &
dirty" method, I avoid these problems by
saving the packages to an external drive, then use dpkg to install them
when necessary.
In the beginning of KDE4 I thought I might use trinity myself, but went
more "spartan" some time ago by using fluxbox. And since I learned, that
this "special" user tends to forget things anyway, I use anydesk now to
solve problems, which are the same anyway and are NOT depending on which
DE is used, so maybe I just use software from the official repros to
avoid trouble like this.
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