Dear Thierry,
Am 03.Feb.2019 um 23:05 schrieben Sie:
I wanted to install trinity, preliminary stable, alongside KDE.
a) You say Buster. Where did you install TDE from? What version? As far as I know, for Buster you need the premilinary builds.
Didn't I write that? And it came from deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity-sb buster deps-r14 main-r14
b) You say KDE 3.5.10. I seem to remember that install instructions said to purge any KDE 3.5 elements befor install. So yes, KDE 3.5 and TDE clash. It's known. I guess that's because thes share files with the same name, but different contents.
Wiki.trinity.desktop.org: "TDE will automatically execute a script which will migrate as many of your KDE3/TDE3.5.x settings as possible. At the end of the process, your KDE3/TDE3.5.x profile will still exist (unchanged) and a new TDE profile will have been created inside the ~/.trinity folder." Nowhere is stated, that TDE and KDE can not coexist!
Any more suggestions? Regards.