OK. I've been up about 24 hours. Ubuntu Natty (amd64) on a Dell
somethingorother. Install of Ubuntu was smoooth. Did the steps Tim outlined:
On 09/12/11 12:11, Timothy Pearson wrote:
I suggest you start with a default Ubuntu (not
Kubuntu) installation. Add
these four lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-nightly-build-de…
natty main
deb-src
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-nightly-build-de…
natty main
deb
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-nightly-builds/u…
natty main
deb-src
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-nightly-builds/u…
natty main
The, from a terminal, execute:
sudo apt-get update
sudo passwd
<enter a temporary root password>
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop-trinity
sudo passwd -l
Be sure to specifically choose a TDE session on the login screen. If you
are untarring an old $HOME onto your new installation simply make a symlink
from .kde (if you used Kubuntu previously) or .kde3 if you've used one of
Tim's previous kits/distros and all your stuff comes back magically.
Hurray!
Note that there is still an issue with keys and mirrors, so you will likely
still see:
W: GPG error:
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net natty Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
available: NO_PUBKEY 43F1DC4F2B8638D0
W: GPG error:
http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net natty Release: The
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
available: NO_PUBKEY 43F1DC4F2B8638D0
Thanks, Tim, for not forcing me (and the rest of us) to have to make a new
desktop layout just because KDE4 is "better" in some programmer's mind.
I've had mine for *years*, even under Solaris(!) and didn't see the need to
change.
Some reports on issues a little later ... :-)
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Peter Laws / N5UWY
National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
University of Oklahoma Information Technology
plaws(a)ou.edu
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