18 Mar
2018
18 Mar
'18
11:51 a.m.
On Sunday 18 March 2018 03:16:55 Frank Lienhard wrote:
On 03/18/2018 01:10 AM, William Morder wrote:
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 was trying to help you avoid a total system reinstallation, but sometimes
that's the only way.
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.
If I can help, let me know.
Bill
On Saturday 17 March 2018 10:35:53 Frank Lienhard
wrote:
I could
due to a misunderstanding with my co-admin, the
following happend:
the trinity sources where removed in the sources.list and afterwards 2
Dist upgrades where performed:
wheezy(7) -> jessie(8)
jessie(8) -> strech(9)
now I'm unable to get rid of the installed trinity packages:
apt-get purge *-trinity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package *-trinity
E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression
E: Couldn't find any package by regex '*-trinity'
But there are installled packages:
dpkg -l | grep trinity
ii akregator-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0
amd64 RSS feed aggregator for KDE
ii amor-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0
amd64 a Trinity creature for your desktop
ii ark-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0
amd64 graphical archiving tool for Trinity
ii arts-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+1
all sound system from the official KDE release
[lots more]
Any advie, how to procede?
First off, co-admin is a bad idea, but you probably know that already. not abide another person installing or removing
items without my
knowledge.
Only one person can be admin on my system, but
then I don't like sharing
either computers or toothbrushes. Tell me that again, when you are in
Hospital with no internet connection and your son is the only one with
some knowledge to do it and your mom bought a new printer for her
computer, because she broke the old one by coverung vending slots. While
you are on heavy medication.
So yes I aggree you *might* come to bad decissions by that ;-)>
Second, did you try searching for *-tde to purge
other items?
Sometimes things
get removed as dependencies. Also, try searching
with weird terms like
*trinity*, *tde*, etc., just to be sure. The problem is, that the
deinstallation doesn't work at all, because of unresolved conflicts from
the upgrades.
Third, do you have another DE installed, or that
you can install, like
lxde or
whatever? Also slim is a good idea. If necessary,
remove everything
tde or
trinity (including the desktop-base-trinity and
anything trinity-core or
tde-core) then start over. You can use another minimal DE to get
online and
download packages. xfce is running also, but IIRC
because of trinity
beeing installed first, the upgrade process tries to remove the xserver
packages.
Also the recommeted way to uninstall the trinity packages ends up with
the suggestion to uninstall things like cron.
Or to runn first "apt-get -f instll">
Finally, I gave an account of my quick &
dirty methods in a separate
post;
this saves me a lot of time, and I don't keep
fumbling round with
problems
like this. I may have a look at that. But right
now it seems to be
less trouble to use xfce and theach the diffrences, maybe with a fresh
install of debian and just rsync the home dirs..
Bill
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