> On 26 October 2017 at 04:17 Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday 25 October 2017 03:25:29 pm Decarraig wrote:
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > On 25 Oct 2017, at 00:21, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > The simple answer, there is no duplications, TDE adds only Trinity apps.
> > >
> > > Installing Debian there is the option to not install a DE during the
> > > install. I install "base + standard" then follow the directions on the
> > > wiki.
> > >
> > > I have standarized on TDE so having only one DE is my preference. I add
> > > non Trinity apps (+depends) as needed.
> > >
> > > greg
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Thanks Greg,
> >
> > Your suggestion as to how to install Debian worked.
> >
> > Because I installed Stretch I had to follow the wiki page
> > https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Preliminary_Stable_Builds
> >
> > Adding the repos to the sources list went fine but now I am stuck on trying
> > to install the GPG key - I keep getting "connection refused" from
> > keys.gnupg.net keyserver.
> >
> > Padraig
>
> I had to intall "dirmngr" to get "apt-key" to work. It is not part of base +
> standard utils tasks.
>
> "apt install dirmngr"
>
> greg

Thanks - I had already installed dirmngr . Still couldn't get the GPG key. After a bit of googling I found a similar issue where the solution offered was to ping keys.gnupg.net and then to replace keys.gnupg.net with the IP address identified in the ping output when using the apt-key adv command.

This worked for me - although I am not entirely sure why. I presume that some GPG related package was not included in the Debian base+standard utils install.

Trinity desktop now installed and running

Padraig