The time has come for a new computer; the old one has the remains of KDE3/4,Gnome and LXDE on it. I want to start with a fresh install of Debian (unstable = wheezy) + Trinity on AMD64. What is the current recommendation for 1) the Trinity repositories 2) How to install Debian without automatically getting Gnome?
cheers
anthony
On Friday 22 June 2012 11:49:57 ant wrote:
The time has come for a new computer; the old one has the remains of KDE3/4,Gnome and LXDE on it. I want to start with a fresh install of Debian (unstable = wheezy) + Trinity on AMD64. What is the current recommendation for
- the Trinity repositories
- How to install Debian without automatically getting Gnome?
cheers
anthony
I'm not sure what the best version of Trinity would be for Wheezy - I suspect Slavek's patched version of 3.5.13, at least until 3.5.14 is released.
To avoid getting Gnome on a fresh Debian install don't chose one of the 'default' systems types i.e. desktop, server, developer system etc. but instead choose to select which packages you want to install manually. This will leave you with a minimal bootable Debian system from which you can use dselect to chose and install the specific packages you want. If you chose any Gnome or GTK packages you'll end up with some Gnome components, as dselect sorts out and installs the dependencies, but not the full Gnome desktop.
LeeE
On Friday 22 June 2012 2:49:57 am ant wrote:
The time has come for a new computer; the old one has the remains of KDE3/4,Gnome and LXDE on it. I want to start with a fresh install of Debian (unstable = wheezy) + Trinity on AMD64. What is the current recommendation for
- the Trinity repositories
- How to install Debian without automatically getting Gnome?
cheers
anthony
If you want to use Wheezy I think it is best to use TDE3.5.14, which is nightly builds as of now. I have a test situation setup with Wheezy & the TDE 3.5.14 nightlies, it is working okay. I won't upgrade my workstation until both are official releases though. Squeeze and Slávek Banko'w 3.5.13.1 is working great for my use.
I install Debian using the auto install mode. When the task select screen comes up I un-check the desktop meta package. This give me a base install + the standard packages....no X or DE stuff. I then add Trinity to my sources.list, I don't run with a backup DE installed.
I add apps which depending on which tool-kit was used to buld them , I get additional libraries, etc .from GTK or Gnome, or ?
On 23/06/12 00:57, Greg Madden wrote:
On Friday 22 June 2012 2:49:57 am ant wrote:
The time has come for a new computer; the old one has the remains of KDE3/4,Gnome and LXDE on it. I want to start with a fresh install of Debian (unstable = wheezy) + Trinity on AMD64. What is the current recommendation for
- the Trinity repositories
- How to install Debian without automatically getting Gnome?
cheers
anthony
If you want to use Wheezy I think it is best to use TDE3.5.14, which is nightly builds as of now. I have a test situation setup with Wheezy& the TDE 3.5.14 nightlies, it is working okay. I won't upgrade my workstation until both are official releases though. Squeeze and Slávek Banko'w 3.5.13.1 is working great for my use.
I install Debian using the auto install mode. When the task select screen comes up I un-check the desktop meta package. This give me a base install + the standard packages....no X or DE stuff. I then add Trinity to my sources.list, I don't run with a backup DE installed.
I add apps which depending on which tool-kit was used to buld them , I get additional libraries, etc .from GTK or Gnome, or ?
The Debian "business card" or netinstall iso is also a good start, small download, no X, no bloat. Edit repos and add what you want after from CLI
smxi is a really useful utility to build a custom setup from cli
3.5.14 nightlies, as the name suggests, might be incomplete or buggy at times (so can Debian Testing!)
3.5.13 with Slavek's updates work great here on Squeeze. Last time I did a Wheezy/TDE install, a couple of months back, had to temporarily enable Squeeze repos for (only a few) TDE deps. No harm was done by this.
TDE repos can be slow, I use apt-get with -d switch (download only) then check for errors before applying.
If you want to be more selective with TDE packages "kdebase-trinity" gets the minimum necessary to run TDE (for 3.5.13, might be renamed for 3.5.14), you can add more later.
No "recommendations" here, just personal experience.
David
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