18 Sep
2012
18 Sep
'12
11:57 a.m.
On Monday 17 September 2012 17:10:53 Lisi wrote:
I started again. I installed a fairly basic Squeeze
system, I then
installed LXDE (without a hitch), then desktop-base-trinity, also without a
hitch. I used only the official repository.
I now had a working system with a terminal in which I could scroll back,
and if I wanted copy in order to paste.
Next I tried to install kde-trinity. A long error message ensued. But
this time I could scroll back to see the whole message.
Just an observation: If you're in a situation where you can only work via the
console and can't scroll back to see errors that have scrolled off-screen
then either pipe the command through a pager, like less, or re-direct std
output & std err to a file. You can then use less or an editor, like nano,
or even copy it to another system to view the entire output and find out what
happened.
I held off from commenting earlier because I got bounced from trinity-users
again (this only became apparent after I'd noticed that I hadn't received any
trinity-users posting for about a month or so). Anyway, as a result I missed
the start of this thread and I didn't realise that you hadn't actually been
able to see the relevant messages.
LeeE