15 Sep
2012
15 Sep
'12
9:40 a.m.
On Saturday 15 September 2012 10:26:06 Lisi wrote:
Hello all :-)
I am doing a fresh install of Trinity, on a fresh install of Debian
Squeeze, which so far has no GUI installed.
After I issue:
aptitude install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity
I get a list of 165 recommends and the question: do you accept this
solution?
Well, I think that there are 165, but the first that I can currently see is
number 147. Having dismally failed to find a way to see what I am being
asked to agree to, I decided to accept all recommends, which might at least
reduce the number of things on the screen and let me see what else, if
anything, aptitude is telling me. (Oh, I do miss konsole!)
So I did:
aptitude -r install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity
That made no difference at all. Still a problem, still 165 recommends (as
far as I can see), still: do you accept this solution? And I still don't
know what "solution" it is recommending. It might be suggesting _removing_
165 packages.
So, in case I had gone bonkers and got the order wrong I tried:
aptitude install -r desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity
Same result. :-(
I am fresh out of ideas. I have had enough physical problems building this
computer, without software problems as well. :-(
Seeing this on the list gave me an idea I ought to have thought of sooner:
try apt-get. I am in the process of doing so. It has listed teh [problems
mor ecomprehensibly, saying what dpends on what and what isn't gouing to be
installed. so I am now trying to install those packages manually.
As I say, this is a fresh install. If necessary I wipe the drives and start
again.
Lisi