Hello all,
I've been trying again to install TDE on Mageia 3 (following the install instructions). Most of it seems OK, but the install fails with a message saying some packages can't be installed because they depend on packages older than those installed.
The packages in question are trinity-perld-dcop, trinity-tdebindings and trinity-desktop.
However, I've noticed that links, when installing software from Mageia, contain a directory "cauldron", and uname -a returns an "mga4" element. I associate "cauldron" with a development version, am I right?
So could it be that I somehow got a development version of Mageia? The md5 hash of my DVD is not the same as that given on the mageia site ?!?
I am re-downloading a fresh image from Mageia 3 now, but if anyone has more knowledge about Mageia than me, I'd be happy for any information about the version I should install for TDE...
Regards,
Thierry
Le 25/07/2013 23:12, Thierry de Coulon a écrit :
Hello all,
I've been trying again to install TDE on Mageia 3 (following the install instructions). Most of it seems OK, but the install fails with a message saying some packages can't be installed because they depend on packages older than those installed.
The packages in question are trinity-perld-dcop, trinity-tdebindings and trinity-desktop.
However, I've noticed that links, when installing software from Mageia, contain a directory "cauldron", and uname -a returns an "mga4" element. I associate "cauldron" with a development version, am I right?
So could it be that I somehow got a development version of Mageia? The md5 hash of my DVD is not the same as that given on the mageia site ?!?
I am re-downloading a fresh image from Mageia 3 now, but if anyone has more knowledge about Mageia than me, I'd be happy for any information about the version I should install for TDE...
Regards,
Thierry
Yes, Cauldron is the fixed codename of the development version of Mageia. Currently, Cauldron is the future Mageia 4.
Try to issue the command "lsb_release -d" to see what is displayed. If you are running stable Mageia 3, you should not see any "mga4" reference anywhere.
However, only "trinity-perl-dcop" is an actual package. The other 2 are metapackage, which can not be installed because at least one actual package cannot be installed.
I'm using Mageia 3 as my primary desktop so I can easily see problems with this distribution. The only "trick" that may occur in Mageia during TDE installation, is that you must enable the "non-free" repositories, because some TDE programs need some non-free libraries (mostly mp3 and other mpeg stuff).
François
On Thursday 25 Jul 2013 23:12:49 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I've been trying again to install TDE on Mageia 3 (following the install instructions). .. However, I've noticed that links, when installing software from Mageia, contain a directory "cauldron", and uname -a returns an "mga4" element. I associate "cauldron" with a development version, am I right?
It might be you've been affected by a known installer bug in the first version of the DVD .iso.
At the end of installation, did you accepted the installer offer to do a s/w update *before* the post-installation re-boot? If so, the 'Cauldron' bug can be avoided by postponing s/w update until *after* the re-boot.
On Friday 26 July 2013 16.56:58 Maurice wrote:
On Thursday 25 Jul 2013 23:12:49 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I've been trying again to install TDE on Mageia 3 (following the install instructions). .. However, I've noticed that links, when installing software from Mageia, contain a directory "cauldron", and uname -a returns an "mga4" element. I associate "cauldron" with a development version, am I right?
It might be you've been affected by a known installer bug in the first version of the DVD .iso.
At the end of installation, did you accepted the installer offer to do a s/w update *before* the post-installation re-boot? If so, the 'Cauldron' bug can be avoided by postponing s/w update until *after* the re-boot.
Yes, I think that's what happened. I've downloaded and installed a newer DVD image. TDE is installed too - although I had to search for, download and install several dependancies that where not on the DVD (and yes I had selected non-free), did not even seem to be on the mirrors.
That let me feel back some 15 years ago when I stuggled to install my first Linux distributions :)
Anyway its done, now I still have some tuning to do and try using Mageia as my main system.
Thierry
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