Am Sonntag, 18. März 2018 schrieb Frank Lienhard:
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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.
If you stay with debian be prepared for systemd shooting it's foot in creative ways ...