So do I normally, using fetchmail to keep an imap server (dovecot) at my ISP empty. And I have that part workiing, but it will not install anything from R14 despite updating the keyring. Synaptic turns the doit button red and proclaims I have held, broken packages, but refuses to ID them. So just to get a gui, i've quite a bit of xfce4 installed but can't find anything that will assign multiple workspaces, so I'm stuck with only one shell at a time to tyry and see whats going on.
My 7 gigs of old mail is because there are several lists I've never expired, so of it going back to 2002. Even getting xfce's default of 4 workspaces would be a huge help. And I'd be double blessed if I could install tde, the whole maryann.
trying to run synaptic gets me this gets me a msgs that says use the broken filter to locate 3 broken packages, but theres no such "filter". clearing that and clicking on the fix-broken meno item gets me this:
E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'if /usr/bin/test -w /var/lib/command-not-found/ -a -e /usr/lib/cnf-update-db; then /usr/lib/cnf-update-db > /dev/null; fi' E: Sub-process returned an error code
searching locate doesn't find cnf-update-db, but an "ls -l /usr/lib" shows:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Jan 6 2021 cnf-update-db -> ../share/command-not-found/cnf-update-db drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 29 06:07 colobot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Jan 6 2021 command-not-found -> ../share/command-not-found/command-not-found
And that leaves me bum-fuzzled. I could do another, 4th install but that is around an 8 hour job just to clear the raid10's. I did find thebroken filter finally:
fig2dev mono-runtime-sgen python-is-python2
I'll see if they can be renoved. took some doing, then desktop-base had to be removed and desktop-trinity added, but now its updateing 263 trinity pkgs, I'll send this, quite FF and reboot to see if I'm making progress.
In the meantime, Thanks hunter
On Mon, 29 Nov, 2021 at 3:04 PM, Hunter Ellett via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
To: tde users Cc: hunter2k1@disroot.org On November 29, 2021 1:11:24 PM CST, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.netmailto:gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
Some of kde did install but the new kmail 5something doesn't see 7 gigs of old mail, nor will it create ANYTHING not even a new folder.
So this is from ff doing webmail, which I would rather use for target practice.
Does anyone have a fix for either problem?
Hi Gene,
Are you talking about tde or kde? Im assuming tde by the title and the context of your message but then you say "kmail 5something". Are you using Plasma Kmail on TDE? Clearing this up will help us diagnose the problem.
Either way, 7 GB of mail is a lot. Im guessing this is POP which I know nothing about, for I use IMAP.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 03:06:42PM -0800, Gene Heskett wrote:
So just to get a gui, i've quite a bit of xfce4 installed but can't find anything that will assign multiple workspaces
In Fedora, I use:
Xfce menu > Settings > Workspaces
so I'm stuck with only one shell at a time to tyry and see whats going on.
You don't need multiple workspaces to get more than one shell.
Open one terminal/console in the GUI, then open multiple tabs.
Or open one terminal/console in the GUI, then open another one.
Right now, I'm running Xfce and I have five terminals running with sixteen tabs. And that's unusually low for me, I normally have a lot more than that.
My 7 gigs of old mail is because there are several lists I've never expired, so of it going back to 2002. Even getting xfce's default of 4 workspaces would be a huge help. And I'd be double blessed if I could install tde, the whole maryann.
I am confident that your 7 gigs of mail has nothing to do with you being unable to install TDE. As far as your mail goes, that's just data.
I am also confident that trying to install both TDE and KDE 5 at the same time it likely to cause grief.
As far as your mail goes, if I recall, you have regular on-going problems with mail due to its huge size. Are your mailboxes mbox files or maildir directories? If mbox, that would explain a lot.
After you have fixed your TDE breakage, I suggest you consider installing Postfix and Dovecot on your machine, moving all your mail into Dovecot using maildir format, and configuring your mail clients (Kmail, or whatever) to talk to your Dovecot.
Other people have successfully managed 40GB of mail using Dovecot:
https://dovecot.dovecot.narkive.com/9SeC39Mq/mailbox-size-limit
so I don't think 7GB will push its limits.
But that's a conversation for another day, *after* you have fixed your broken TDE/Xfce installation. (Don't start rearranging the furniture while the house's foundations are collapsing.)
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Steven D'Aprano