Hi folks
I was delighted when I heard about trinity as I still use kubuntu 8.04 and will never, until death or even beyond, use kde4 or any other developer ego-driven user-unfriendly DE.
I followed the instructions on the installation page: http://trinitydesktop.org/installation.php ubuntu section, and after installing ubuntu 11.10 on a spare partition, I entered the commands as instructed.
Firstly, there was the known problem with the sudo command which the developers have decided to keep a secret and not edit the installation instructions to add 3 lines of text to help the user. But I was pointed to the bug page and followed the instructions there.
I was able to download and start trinity (v3.5.13) and as soon as I clicked on the main menu button the system crashed and the whole panel disappeared leaving a totally blank desktop.
Here is here I get really confused.
I did have a look at the known bugs and this seems to be a know 'solved'? bug - I think. What is the point in having incorrect instructions to download and install a desktop which doesn't work?
If someone said it was a joke created by the kde4 team it would make some sense, they would be getting a laugh at someone who was looking for a real desktop which had the end user in mind, but if this is a genuine 'alternative' then I am at a loss as to why there is any talk of trinity desktop at all.
I do understand that the developers are busy working on R14 - the NEXT GREATEST THING - with the WOW factor!!!! (you remember the WOW factor?) but what is the point if the previous version doesn't work? 8:(
This seems to be exactly the same attitude towards the end user as the other DE developers, or am I wrong? 8^}
Is there a different installation page with instructions of how to obtain a working version of trinity? Is there a working version?
Please tell me that I am wrong about everything and there is a simple explanation for all this. AND there is a working version! - hidden somewhere! Or are you the kde4 team having a laugh? !!
Thanks
Lou
Hi folks
I was delighted when I heard about trinity as I still use kubuntu 8.04 and will never, until death or even beyond, use kde4 or any other developer ego-driven user-unfriendly DE.
I followed the instructions on the installation page: http://trinitydesktop.org/installation.php ubuntu section, and after installing ubuntu 11.10 on a spare partition, I entered the commands as instructed.
Firstly, there was the known problem with the sudo command which the developers have decided to keep a secret and not edit the installation instructions to add 3 lines of text to help the user. But I was pointed to the bug page and followed the instructions there.
I was able to download and start trinity (v3.5.13) and as soon as I clicked on the main menu button the system crashed and the whole panel disappeared leaving a totally blank desktop.
Here is here I get really confused.
I did have a look at the known bugs and this seems to be a know 'solved'? bug - I think. What is the point in having incorrect instructions to download and install a desktop which doesn't work?
<snip>
I am sorry that you are experiencing these problems. Please keep in mind that we do not have the resources of other larger projects, which slows development somewhat.
Have you installed Slavek's 3.5.13.1 packages? We are fully aware of the problems with 3.5.13, including the one you describe (which is incidentally a problem with the base system, not TDE itself), and are planning to release a Stable Release Update as soon as possible.
Tim
Hi folks
Firstly I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my email.
I've decided to document my experience with trinity in case developers are saying to themselves - we've created the best DE ever and few are useing it - don't they know how good it is?
Hopefully this reply will help improve the interaction between the developers and the end users because without some improvement this fork will go the same way as most of the others - into a back water.
Just to explain where I am coming from, I am no expert, the first interaction with computers was in the mid 80s when I was writing machine code, by hand - literally, on a home computer - requiring the tv as vdu. Unfortunately I didn't continue down that road, so I'm no geek. Discovered linux 2008 and was immediately hooked. Discovered kde3.5 and found my nirvana. Have used kubuntu 8.04 since. LOVE the console and always look forward to writing scripts when necessary, sometimes even when not! (you know what I mean). But I have never compiled or applied a patch - in my defence I am tired, old and have other more pressing matters to attend to. If you want to see how I use my computer have a look here: http://www.lougogan.com/computer/linux/screen-01.php (this was when I was changing my web site from html to php - it wasn't contrived)
So, in short I am not a newbie and not a geek - just somehwere in-between. Is that the description of a no-hoper? ;-)
I DO understand that the work done by the developers is volunatary work etc.so please take this as CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. I, for one, want to see trinity work and be successful for the LONGTERM - for purely selfish reasons! ;-)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @ Julius
There is a live cd with Trinity that works well. You can upgrade Trinity to 3.5.13 and it should stay stable.
The mention of the live CD got my attention immediately. Initially I had downloaded ubuntu 10.10 solely to have an up-to-date buntu version before downloading trinity - what a waste of a cd, what can I say about Unity - ugly CHOAS! I went back and checked out the official installation page and saw the link to the live CDs. I had seen the link before but the way it was worded it looked as if it was a link to buy a CD with trinity installed.
I have downloaded it and plan to check it out within the hour!
That download page has some strange coding. My downloaded file was named: redirect.php?file=cdimages%2Fkubuntu%2Fmaverick%2Fkubuntu-10.10-trinity-desktop-i386.iso (work needs to be done on the official pages - I think)
Thanks Julius
(results further down the page) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @ Glen Cunningham
A g'day back to you!
Thanks for your help, will try out the live CD first.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @ Calvin
I strongly suggest Slavek's packages. I have deployed them on all of my systems with great success.
Thanks (see reference to Slavek below)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @ Timothy Pearson wrote:
I am sorry that you are experiencing these problems. Please keep in mind that we do not have the resources of other larger projects, which slows development somewhat.
This isn't about development but rather keeping things already released tidy before going forward ie not having a link to a version which doesn't work - that kind of thing! 8^)
Have you installed Slavek's 3.5.13.1 packages? We are fully aware of the problems with 3.5.13, including the one you describe (which is incidentally a problem with the base system, not TDE itself), and are planning to release a Stable Release Update as soon as possible.
Thanks (see reference to Slavek below)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ref Slavek
for someone to mention "Slavek's 3.5.13.1 packages" is equivalent - AND AS HELPFUL - to me as saying
There is a man in China who has the answer. He lives on a road with a tree on the corner and his house has a green door.
NOT very helpful - IMHO.
That answer may as well have been written in Serbo-Croatian-Outer-Mongolian-Yak-Script (I hope that is a part of the language package in trinity !!)
AND I think this is the core of the problem.
I think a wiki is required because developers will always have a non-'thick-user' frame of mind, which is very natural, and this nearly always creates a situation where the terse explanation "Slavek's 3.5.13.1 packages" seems so obvious to the developer while remaining totally baffling to the user. Who is Slavek? How do I get in touch with him/her/it? Where does "Slavek's 3.5.13.1 packages" live? Does this mean compiling? Patching?
The problem is that you KNOW these answers and don't realise that WE - these demanding annoying users - are not in that same developer bubble as you. Instructions for the users should be written by the users - NOT by the developers. The phrase "Slavek's 3.5.13.1 packages" means absoutely NOTHING to ME.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @ Dan Youngquist
Part of his point was that the installation instructions on the website do not result in a working system. This is something we talked about here several months ago, and nothing has been done about it. How hard would it really be to fix the website?
We think as one. Are we twins?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @LeeE
Referring people to a wiki for installation instructions sounds like a good idea and would reduce any maintenance overhead for the web site.
You'll go far! Another twin?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @ Lisi The reason why I used the term 'the WOW factor' was to draw attention to this totally destructive attitude of - this one doesn't work right, but wait till you see the next one - it'll be great!!!!
Call me old-fashioned, if you will, but I think an official page linking to an official release which doesn't work somehow doesn't make much sense, but then again - I am not an expert! :=}
But this is Open Source. You are at liberty to rewrite bits that you don't like, as indeed am I. So I lean on people, but do not feel justified in criticising the things they do.
I wasn't talking about bits I didn't like, but merely the fact it didn't work at all. IF the page had said - "this does not work - go write your own!", then I would have nothing to complain about.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @Tim
I did not originally intend R14 to take so long to make it to release. In fact I was not even planning for a 3.5.13 SRU, but enough bugs were discovered over time (some original KDE bugs as well) to significantly delay the next release. This is obviously suboptimal and it looks like some things will need to be partially fixed in the interim.
From what I've seen and read, this 'rush' for the next release is detrimental to the steady and longterm success of any DE 'version'. Too much 'pressure' can lead to developers dropping out because instead of being a pleasure and an interest it just turns into a grinding chore.
Developers should develop, with some feedback from users, and users should have a group to organise instructions for new users - those who know about the using the DE to help those who don't.
I would dearly love trinity to not only work but to gain a firm foothold in the DE landscape.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RESULTS OF DOWNLOADING THE LIVE CD (for those of a nervous disposition, please turn away now!)
As Julius mentioned the live CD I downloaded it and tried it out. I ended up with a cli screen ubuntu@ubuntu: I thought that it might be my computer causing problems (my hard drive is beginning to whine as if about to kick the bucket!).
Luckily I have a second computer so I tried the live CD on that and ended up with the same cli. Even though I've never used it in the past I decided to try the command startx just to see if that would work...and it did. (NOTE: a total newbie would not know that command).
I then tried it again on my work-horse computer and it happened to automatically start the gui mode after a few seconds delay in the cli mode, so I installed it on a spare partition. Naturally enough I immediately decided to customise some of the design ie panel, clock, menu etc. to see how it 'worked' but half way through the clock customising, the colour chooser crashed, but I was able to continue and closed the clock dialogue box.
Then I noticed that there was still a button of the clock dialogue box in the taskbar and I wasn't able to switch desktops. I decided to open a konsole and see if I could kill the clock dialogue box. The konsole opened but without a titlebar and it didn't accept any input. The system hadn't totally crashed - the menu worked but at that stage I decided to end that session and presume that this version wasn't going to be right no matter what.
So, this long saga brings my experience with trinity up to date.
I still want to have a kde3.5.xx/trinity type desktop and I wouldn't mind testing out the R14 when it comes out but for me I need a DE that helps me to get real work done - not a DE that I have to work on just trying to get it to work (if you get what I mean!).
Someone mentioned Debian so I might check that out (I have only ever used kubuntu) but I don't want to spend hours and hours just trying to see if trinity works. AND the point is that even if I download and install Debian wheeze, sqeeze, breeze or sneeze than I still have the dilemma of should I download 3.5.13 or "Slavek's 3.5.13.1 packages" wherever that is? Will I have to compile it? Patch it?
From my point of view, the whole thing is just a crazy unmitaged disaster zone.
As far as I can see, in a way it's a case of the developers deciding: Is trinity to be a DE only for geeks or is it to be organised and 'packaged' for 'normal' linux users.
PS From what I've read on this list it seems as if trinity does NOT work with any ubuntu releases. May I make a suggestion - PLEASE TAKE ALL REFERENCE TO UBUNTU OFF THE INSTALLATION PAGE. PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE. Just doing that would be such a positive move forward for trinity AND it would not waste the time of, and create the frustration and annoyance for, stupid innocent users like me!!
Nevertheless - I will continue to live in hope that someday I will be installing a working trinity DE! (I'll have to read up about Debian) 8=)
Sorry for the long email.
I have to go to bed now to rest my weary head! ;@)
Cheers to all.
Lou Gogan Saula, Achill, Co Mayo, Ireland ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Where the sun shines from morning till night.......above the rain clouds.
www.lougogan.com www.irishcitizen.ie
Lou Gogan wrote:
@ Julius
There is a live cd with Trinity that works well. You can upgrade Trinity to 3.5.13 and it should stay stable.
The mention of the live CD got my attention immediately. Initially I had downloaded ubuntu 10.10 solely to have an up-to-date buntu version before downloading trinity - what a waste of a cd, what can I say about Unity - ugly CHOAS! I went back and checked out the official installation page and saw the link to the live CDs. I had seen the link before but the way it was worded it looked as if it was a link to buy a CD with trinity installed.
I have downloaded it and plan to check it out within the hour!
That download page has some strange coding. My downloaded file was named: redirect.php?file=cdimages%2Fkubuntu%2Fmaverick%2Fkubuntu-10.10-trinity-desktop-i386.iso
Good you found them. I would recommend the Lucid (10.04) live cd however. It is still fully supported. If you have problems on newer hardware, there are backported kernels available through the regular Ubuntu repositories.
Best regards, Julius
Hi folks
Firstly I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my email.
I've decided to document my experience with trinity in case developers are saying to themselves - we've created the best DE ever and few are useing it - don't they know how good it is?
Hopefully this reply will help improve the interaction between the developers and the end users because without some improvement this fork will go the same way as most of the others - into a back water.
<snip>
Thank you for your detailed input! I apologise for not pointing directly to Slavek's packages ( https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~slavek-banko/+archive/axis for the record ); it was late at night and I didn't have the link handy at the time.
As you probably found out, the last LiveCD was released a while ago on a somewhat unstable Ubuntu version (non-LTS). This is being worked on; in fact I am only waiting on LibreOffice 3.6 to be released before I should be able to generate a new (less buggy) LiveCD with TDE installed.
The information on kgtk is helpful. This package will likely be removed from the installation metapackages in the future ( http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1078 ).
One of the most frustrating things about our current 3.5.13 release is the persistent sudo problem. This has been fixed for R14.0, but the fix relies on new technology in Ubuntu that is not present in the oldest supported Ubuntu releases for TDE 3.5.13. There are other problems with 3.5.13 that cannot really be fixed with an SRU, which is the primary reason I (and many other developers here) have been concentrating on R14 and getting it out the door as quickly as possible without sacrificing quality.
Tim
Hi folks
Firstly I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my email.
I've decided to document my experience with trinity in case developers are saying to themselves - we've created the best DE ever and few are useing it - don't they know how good it is?
Hopefully this reply will help improve the interaction between the developers and the end users because without some improvement this fork will go the same way as most of the others - into a back water.
<snip>
I have added preliminary replacement instructions for Ubuntu to the Wiki here: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/UbuntuBinaryInstal...
If those instructions look good to people who have recently installed 3.5.13 on Ubuntu, I will point the main install instructions on the website to that Wiki page.
Tim
On Saturday 30 June 2012 00:35:28 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Hi folks
Firstly I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my email.
I've decided to document my experience with trinity in case developers are saying to themselves - we've created the best DE ever and few are useing it - don't they know how good it is?
Hopefully this reply will help improve the interaction between the developers and the end users because without some improvement this fork will go the same way as most of the others - into a back water.
<snip>
Thank you for your detailed input! I apologise for not pointing directly to Slavek's packages ( https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~slavek-banko/+archive/axis for the record ); it was late at night and I didn't have the link handy at the time.
As you probably found out, the last LiveCD was released a while ago on a somewhat unstable Ubuntu version (non-LTS). This is being worked on; in fact I am only waiting on LibreOffice 3.6 to be released before I should be able to generate a new (less buggy) LiveCD with TDE installed.
The information on kgtk is helpful. This package will likely be removed from the installation metapackages in the future ( http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1078 ).
One of the most frustrating things about our current 3.5.13 release is the persistent sudo problem. This has been fixed for R14.0, but the fix relies on new technology in Ubuntu that is not present in the oldest supported Ubuntu releases for TDE 3.5.13. There are other problems with 3.5.13 that cannot really be fixed with an SRU, which is the primary reason I (and many other developers here) have been concentrating on R14 and getting it out the door as quickly as possible without sacrificing quality.
Tim
Hi Tim
The one thing I realise is that to progress I really do need to bypass ubuntu and consider installing Debian directly and things should be more stable thereafter - after the learning curve. Though, I'll also watch out for the next live CD. I'll also try some of the other suggestions.
I look forward to using Trinity soon....ish !!
Thanks
Thanks to everyone else who gave advice.
Lou
G'day Lou,
On Friday 29 June 2012 07:18:03 Lou Gogan wrote:
Hi folks
I was delighted when I heard about trinity as I still use kubuntu 8.04 and will never, until death or even beyond, use kde4 or any other developer ego-driven user-unfriendly DE.
<snip rest of mild rant that I sympathise with> </snip>
Is there a different installation page with instructions of how to obtain a working version of trinity? Is there a working version?
Please tell me that I am wrong about everything and there is a simple explanation for all this. AND there is a working version! - hidden somewhere! Or are you the kde4 team having a laugh? !!
Thanks
Lou
I suggest that you try here ... http://exe-linux.fastfishwebsolutions.com/trinity/wheezy/ for an easy TDE. One small gotcha if you want to use UK-English but are (like me) stuck with US-keyboards, then select US-Engrish from the live boot options - you can change to "proper" English afterwards. HTH Glen PS. I now see that Tim has replied and I agree with his comments about the bugs and regression errors that keep occurring in 'buntu distros. IMO there has not been a truly tested and stable release of any 'buntu since 6.06. Your reference to "ego-driven user-unfriendly" developers seems very applicable to the current crop of Canonical employees who seem to think that "stable" is a swearword. G.
Lou Gogan wrote:
I was delighted when I heard about trinity as I still use kubuntu 8.04 and will never, until death or even beyond, use kde4 or any other developer ego-driven user-unfriendly DE.
Is there a different installation page with instructions of how to obtain a working version of trinity? Is there a working version?
I would suggest sticking with LTS versions of Ubuntu. 8.04 was an LTS and the next one is 10.04. There is a live cd with Trinity that works well. You can upgrade Trinity to 3.5.13 and it should stay stable.
There is currently no stable version for the latest LTS Ubuntu (12.04).
Best regards, Julius
On 28 June 2012 19:26, Julius Schwartzenberg < julius.schwartzenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
Lou Gogan wrote:
I was delighted when I heard about trinity as I still use kubuntu 8.04
and will
never, until death or even beyond, use kde4 or any other developer
ego-driven
user-unfriendly DE.
Is there a different installation page with instructions of how to
obtain a
working version of trinity? Is there a working version?
I would suggest sticking with LTS versions of Ubuntu. 8.04 was an LTS and the next one is 10.04. There is a live cd with Trinity that works well. You can upgrade Trinity to 3.5.13 and it should stay stable.
There is currently no stable version for the latest LTS Ubuntu (12.04).
Best regards, Julius
I strongly suggest Slavek's packages. I have deployed them on all of my systems with great success.
Trinity is no joke, Calvin
On 06/28/2012 06:08 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
Lou Gogan wrote: > Is there a different installation page with instructions of how to obtain a > working version of trinity? Is there a working version?
I strongly suggest Slavek's packages. I have deployed them on all of my systems with great success.
Part of his point was that the installation instructions on the website do not result in a working system. This is something we talked about here several months ago, and nothing has been done about it. Repeating what I said then, how many people do you think have found the website, tried to install Trinity according to the instructions there, ended up with a hopelessly buggy system and a lot of time wasted, and will never try Trinity again? Lou is one of a tiny minority who have come to the mailing list looking for help -- many, many more simply go away quietly.
How hard would it really be to fix the website? What would it take -- 20 minutes? And how many are there here who are perfectly capable of doing it if given access? It would move the project from a few developers and die-hard dedicated groupies, to an actual viable DE that anyone can install and use. I would've thought that would be a pretty high priority, but what do I know?
On Thursday 28 June 2012 09:31:26 pm Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 06/28/2012 06:08 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
Lou Gogan wrote: > Is there a different installation page with instructions of how to obtain a > working version of trinity? Is there a working version?
I strongly suggest Slavek's packages. I have deployed them on all of my systems with great success.
Part of his point was that the installation instructions on the website do not result in a working system. This is something we talked about here several months ago, and nothing has been done about it. Repeating what I said then, how many people do you think have found the website, tried to install Trinity according to the instructions there, ended up with a hopelessly buggy system and a lot of time wasted, and will never try Trinity again? Lou is one of a tiny minority who have come to the mailing list looking for help -- many, many more simply go away quietly.
How hard would it really be to fix the website? What would it take -- 20 minutes? And how many are there here who are perfectly capable of doing it if given access? It would move the project from a few developers and die-hard dedicated groupies, to an actual viable DE that anyone can install and use. I would've thought that would be a pretty high priority, but what do I know?
I was not really aware of this problem as I use Porteus, David Hare's Exe, or an older version of PCLinuxOS with KDE 3.5.10 (and Bodhi with E17).
I have to agree that this is an absolutely crazy situation and does Trinity no good whatsoever. I assume that the situation is as described. (It seems so bizarre that I feel compelled to state this disclaimer.)
+1 for fixing it.
Andy
On 06/28/2012 06:08 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
Lou Gogan wrote: > Is there a different installation page with instructions of how to obtain a > working version of trinity? Is there a working version?
I strongly suggest Slavek's packages. I have deployed them on all of my systems with great success.
Part of his point was that the installation instructions on the website do not result in a working system. This is something we talked about here several months ago, and nothing has been done about it. Repeating what I said then, how many people do you think have found the website, tried to install Trinity according to the instructions there, ended up with a hopelessly buggy system and a lot of time wasted, and will never try Trinity again? Lou is one of a tiny minority who have come to the mailing list looking for help -- many, many more simply go away quietly.
<snip>
I was not actually aware of the magnitude of the problem until just now, as I tend to use the nightly builds on new installs.
Do we actually have a procedure written anywhere that results in successful installation on Ubuntu? People have access to the Wiki and I would be more than willing to redirect the Ubuntu/Debian install instructions to a Wiki page until R14 is released; would someone who has managed to install TDE successfully be willing to write a brief set of instructions for the Wiki?
I did not originally intend R14 to take so long to make it to release. In fact I was not even planning for a 3.5.13 SRU, but enough bugs were discovered over time (some original KDE bugs as well) to significantly delay the next release. This is obviously suboptimal and it looks like some things will need to be partially fixed in the interim.
Tim
On Friday 29 June 2012 04:06:49 Timothy Pearson wrote:
On 06/28/2012 06:08 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
Lou Gogan wrote: > Is there a different installation page with instructions of how to obtain a > working version of trinity? Is there a working version?
I strongly suggest Slavek's packages. I have deployed them on all of my systems with great success.
Part of his point was that the installation instructions on the website do not result in a working system. This is something we talked about here several months ago, and nothing has been done about it. Repeating what I said then, how many people do you think have found the website, tried to install Trinity according to the instructions there, ended up with a hopelessly buggy system and a lot of time wasted, and will never try Trinity again? Lou is one of a tiny minority who have come to the mailing list looking for help -- many, many more simply go away quietly.
<snip>
I was not actually aware of the magnitude of the problem until just now, as I tend to use the nightly builds on new installs.
Do we actually have a procedure written anywhere that results in successful installation on Ubuntu? People have access to the Wiki and I would be more than willing to redirect the Ubuntu/Debian install instructions to a Wiki page until R14 is released; would someone who has managed to install TDE successfully be willing to write a brief set of instructions for the Wiki?
I did not originally intend R14 to take so long to make it to release. In fact I was not even planning for a 3.5.13 SRU, but enough bugs were discovered over time (some original KDE bugs as well) to significantly delay the next release. This is obviously suboptimal and it looks like some things will need to be partially fixed in the interim.
Tim
Referring people to a wiki for installation instructions sounds like a good idea and would reduce any maintenance overhead for the web site.
Although there's the potential problem with abuse on 'open' wikis the Trinity 'community' is pretty good and, I think, up to the task of keeping it straight and level.
+1 vote for this idea.
LeeE
Timothy Pearson wrote:
Do we actually have a procedure written anywhere that results in successful installation on Ubuntu? People have access to the Wiki and I would be more than willing to redirect the Ubuntu/Debian install instructions to a Wiki page until R14 is released; would someone who has managed to install TDE successfully be willing to write a brief set of instructions for the Wiki?
I think the instructions that are there now only lack the hint to set up a root password temporarily to aid the sudo replacement. I've seen some websites with guides to address this.
Julius
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:06:49 -0500, "Timothy Pearson" kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
I was not actually aware of the magnitude of the problem until just now, as I tend to use the nightly builds on new installs.
Do we actually have a procedure written anywhere that results in successful installation on Ubuntu? People have access to the Wiki and I would be more than willing to redirect the Ubuntu/Debian install instructions to a Wiki page until R14 is released; would someone who has managed to install TDE successfully be willing to write a brief set of instructions for the Wiki?
Hello
I have installed trinity successfully in Kubuntu 10.04 (and will not try to upgrade to 12.04 till http://www.trinitydesktop.org/installation.php#ubuntu will add 12.04 officially.
The procedure was more complicated than I thought:
1. Problem sudo:
The workaround is to temporarily set a root password, install sudo-kde3, then unset the root password. The following commands should do that: 1. sudo passwd 2. Enter a new (temporary) root password at the prompt 3. sudo apt-get install sudo-kde3 4. sudo passwd -l root
2. Problem: kdelibs problem sudo dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data-kde3_4%3a3.5.12-0ubuntu6+r1152788_all.deb
3 Problem hhotnetsuffrc problem sudo apt-get remove --purge khotnewstuffrc
4. Problem again kdelibs4c2a sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c2a-kde3 sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c21-kde3 kdelibs-data-kde3
Regards
Uwe Brauer
Hello,
It's great to follow this thread and see that so much effort is made to improve Trinity. As it seems to be in a state of flux, I've held off on reinstalling but now want to go ahead.
Glen Cunningham's suggestion of http://exe-linux.fastfishwebsolutions.com/trinity/wheezy/ interests me, partly to avoid apparent problems with *buntus. I wonder if anyone would recommend a more recent iso, such as exelinux_squeeze_trinity_3.2.iso, or one of the previews? Or something different? With the aim of having a good working Trinity system that will be upgradable to R14 and beyond.
Robert
Apparently Ubuntu it uses a lot of hacked stuff originating from Debian Unstable, one reason I don't use Ubuntu. I don't know much about it..
I am getting no problems on Squeeze using TDE with Slavek's updates as of last week. Because I install from a custom-selected package list, never the full meta, maybe I don't have the problem packages.
Only yesterday I did a fresh Wheezy bizcard install and added TDE 3.5.13, that also seems fine.
I do the ExeGNU iso's. The latest preview4 (built last week) is not much tested but seems good so far. Don't use the other previews, tests showed a problem with the installer.
David
On Friday 29 June 2012, Uwe Brauer wrote:
Do we actually have a procedure written anywhere that results in successful installation on Ubuntu? People have access to the Wiki and I would be more than willing to redirect the Ubuntu/Debian install instructions to a Wiki page until R14 is released; would someone who has managed to install TDE successfully be willing to write a brief set of instructions for the Wiki?
Hello
I have installed trinity successfully in Kubuntu 10.04 (and will not try to upgrade to 12.04 till http://www.trinitydesktop.org/installation.php#ubuntu will add 12.04 officially.
The procedure was more complicated than I thought:
- Problem sudo:
The workaround is to temporarily set a root password, install sudo-kde3, then unset the root password. The following commands should do that:
sudo passwd
Enter a new (temporary) root password at the prompt
sudo apt-get install sudo-kde3
sudo passwd -l root
Problem: kdelibs problem
sudo dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data-kde3_4%3a3.5.12-0ubuntu6+r1152788_all. deb
3 Problem hhotnetsuffrc problem sudo apt-get remove --purge khotnewstuffrc
- Problem again kdelibs4c2a
sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c2a-kde3 sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c21-kde3 kdelibs-data-kde3
To give my 2 cent to the problems that might occur and a simple workaround I simply copy an old mail from this list (sorry for redundant information but it should not get forgotten)
------------------------- snip ------------------------------------------ On Wednesday 02 May 2012, Slávek Banko wrote:
Problems with crashes GTK programs I have seen only if I had installed kgtk-qt3-trinity (and related), which replacing dialog boxes. But with gtk-qt-engine-trinity, which only changes the appearance of gui widgets, it does not fall.
Note: These problems apparently not related to the update 3.5.13.1.
Slavek
This is a great piece of information. For month I was not able to use
* lazarus-ide * dropbox * calibre
as a normal user. The only work-arround was using 'sudo NAMEOFAPPLICATION'.
You saved my live! I've googled a lot to know what could be the culprit without success. Uninstalling kgtk-qt3-trinity brought all back to normal. What a big step forward!
kgtk-qt3-trinity should not be installed by default. Or there should be a big warning on the www.trinitydesktop.org page! ------------------------- snip ------------------------------------------
Gerhard
On 29/06/12 18:47, Gerhard Zintel wrote:
On Friday 29 June 2012, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Do we actually have a procedure written anywhere that results in > successful installation on Ubuntu? People have access to the Wiki and > I would be more than willing to redirect the Ubuntu/Debian install > instructions to a Wiki page until R14 is released; would someone who > has managed to install TDE successfully be willing to write a brief > set of instructions for the Wiki?
Hello
I have installed trinity successfully in Kubuntu 10.04 (and will not try to upgrade to 12.04 till http://www.trinitydesktop.org/installation.php#ubuntu will add 12.04 officially.
The procedure was more complicated than I thought:
- Problem sudo:
The workaround is to temporarily set a root password, install sudo-kde3, then unset the root password. The following commands should do that:
sudo passwd
Enter a new (temporary) root password at the prompt
sudo apt-get install sudo-kde3
sudo passwd -l root
Problem: kdelibs problem
sudo dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data-kde3_4%3a3.5.12-0ubuntu6+r1152788_all. deb
3 Problem hhotnetsuffrc problem sudo apt-get remove --purge khotnewstuffrc
- Problem again kdelibs4c2a
sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c2a-kde3 sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c21-kde3 kdelibs-data-kde3
To give my 2 cent to the problems that might occur and a simple workaround I simply copy an old mail from this list (sorry for redundant information but it should not get forgotten)
------------------------- snip ------------------------------------------ On Wednesday 02 May 2012, Slávek Banko wrote:
Problems with crashes GTK programs I have seen only if I had installed kgtk-qt3-trinity (and related), which replacing dialog boxes. But with gtk-qt-engine-trinity, which only changes the appearance of gui widgets, it does not fall.
Note: These problems apparently not related to the update 3.5.13.1.
Slavek
This is a great piece of information. For month I was not able to use
- lazarus-ide
- dropbox
- calibre
as a normal user. The only work-arround was using 'sudo NAMEOFAPPLICATION'.
You saved my live! I've googled a lot to know what could be the culprit without success. Uninstalling kgtk-qt3-trinity brought all back to normal. What a big step forward!
kgtk-qt3-trinity should not be installed by default. Or there should be a big warning on the www.trinitydesktop.org page! ------------------------- snip ------------------------------------------
Gerhard
ah yes, kgtk-qt3-trinity (and related) are definitely not on my (Debian) custom install list nor used in the ExeGNU builds (gtk-qt-engine-trinity is). If that is the culprit, no wonder I never noticed. And I never use nor even configure sudo.
David
On Thursday 28 June 2012 22:18:03 Lou Gogan wrote:
I do understand that the developers are busy working on R14 - the NEXT GREATEST THING - with the WOW factor!!!! (you remember the WOW factor?) but what is the point if the previous version doesn't work? 8:(
Where does this jibe come from? Presumably from your frustration? I have never heard R14 described as having the WOW factor. Indeed, if I had, you wouldn't see me for dust. I hate the WOW factor. I like a DE that concentrates on usability not bling. Nor is it believed to be the next greatest thing. As I understand it, there was a discussion about whether to iron the bugs out of 3.5.13 or go straight for 14. I felt that the decision was the wrong one, and so, luckily, apparently did Slàvek. But if I am not going to do things for myself, whatever the reason, I just have to accept what other people are prepared to offer.
But this is Open Source. You are at liberty to rewrite bits that you don't like, as indeed am I. So I lean on people, but do not feel justified in criticising the things they do.
But the problems with Ubuntu seem to be far greater than those with Debian so I solve one problem by avoiding Ubuntu. (I have always found Ubuntu too buggy for me.)
This seems to be exactly the same attitude towards the end user as the other DE developers, or am I wrong? 8^}
In this you are wrong. The developers here give an enormous amount of time to helping individuals and working on TDE. But they have too few resources (= too little money) and not nearly enough people.
Is there a different installation page with instructions of how to obtain a working version of trinity? Is there a working version?
I have never read the Ubuntu page, so cannot comment.
Please tell me that I am wrong about everything and there is a simple explanation for all this. AND there is a working version! - hidden somewhere! Or are you the kde4 team having a laugh? !!
Well, there are certainly working versions. I can only speak for Debian, but on Debian 6.x (Squeeze) TDE 3.5.12 runs perfectly, so far without a problem. With 3.5.13 the situation is not quite as good, but, with the addition of Slavek's repositories, runs acceptably, tho' I have hit a couple of small irritating problems, which could be bugs. I shall be bringing them to this list for help.
Incidentally, the original cause of bugs being accepted on release, in my opinion, was that TDE was originally intended for Ubuntu, and tried to keep the same release pattern - i.e., after 6 months release, and then sort out the bugs if you have time while preparing the next release.
We seem now to have a more stable attitude, and the developers aim to have a release more or less stable by the time they release it, and I think that Debian now probably holds the preeminent postion. Well, I would say that, wouldn't I? ;-)
Anyhow, don't give up. TDE is perfectly usable and quite a few of us use it. It is doing its best to keep KDE 3.x alive and maintain its ethos. And the developers are great. I never cease to be amazed at the way they get stuck in at the coal face and help us all.
This is the most friendly and helpful list I have ever been on. So far I have seen no bitching or snide remarks.
So give us a chance. :-)
Lisi
Dne pá 29. června 2012 Lisi napsal(a):
Well, there are certainly working versions. I can only speak for Debian, but on Debian 6.x (Squeeze) TDE 3.5.12 runs perfectly, so far without a problem. With 3.5.13 the situation is not quite as good, but, with the addition of Slavek's repositories, runs acceptably, tho' I have hit a couple of small irritating problems, which could be bugs. I shall be bringing them to this list for help.
Lisi,
these are problems that are in Bugzilla and have not yet been solved, or we do not know about them? If there is hope that they could be resolved before the official release 3.5.13.1, it would be good to report them.
Slavek --
On Friday 29 June 2012 11:13:37 Slávek Banko wrote:
these are problems that are in Bugzilla and have not yet been solved, or we do not know about them? If there is hope that they could be resolved before the official release 3.5.13.1, it would be good to report them.
I have been ill since the problems arose last week, and had a lot on my plate. (A bad combination!) but will attempt to report them later today. Sorry, Slávek. I know that you can't put something right if you don't know about it.
Repentantly :-( Lisi
Dne pá 29. června 2012 Lisi napsal(a):
On Friday 29 June 2012 11:13:37 Slávek Banko wrote:
these are problems that are in Bugzilla and have not yet been solved, or we do not know about them? If there is hope that they could be resolved before the official release 3.5.13.1, it would be good to report them.
I have been ill since the problems arose last week, and had a lot on my plate. (A bad combination!) but will attempt to report them later today. Sorry, Slávek. I know that you can't put something right if you don't know about it.
Repentantly :-( Lisi
I noticed that you're not here for a long time. So I assumed that everything works fine :)
Slávek --
Hi, Slávek!
Please scrap the email I inadvertently sent to you off-list last night.
On Friday 29 June 2012 11:13:37 Slávek Banko wrote:
Dne pá 29. června 2012 Lisi napsal(a):
Well, there are certainly working versions. I can only speak for Debian, but on Debian 6.x (Squeeze) TDE 3.5.12 runs perfectly, so far without a problem. With 3.5.13 the situation is not quite as good, but, with the addition of Slavek's repositories, runs acceptably, tho' I have hit a couple of small irritating problems, which could be bugs. I shall be bringing them to this list for help.
these are problems that are in Bugzilla and have not yet been solved, or we do not know about them? If there is hope that they could be resolved before the official release 3.5.13.1, it would be good to report them.
I now cannot see why I couldn't resolve the error that I have an error message for; it looks simple to resolve. And where I have no error messages, there is no-where to start.
So I clearly need to get access to the computer and start again. Which is sadly unlikely to be before the release. It is, as I have said, 10 miles away, and I am temporarily housebound.
Lisi
On 03/07/12 08:21, Lisi wrote:
Hi, Slávek!
Please scrap the email I inadvertently sent to you off-list last night.
On Friday 29 June 2012 11:13:37 Slávek Banko wrote:
Dne pá 29. června 2012 Lisi napsal(a):
Well, there are certainly working versions. I can only speak for Debian, but on Debian 6.x (Squeeze) TDE 3.5.12 runs perfectly, so far without a problem. With 3.5.13 the situation is not quite as good, but, with the addition of Slavek's repositories, runs acceptably, tho' I have hit a couple of small irritating problems, which could be bugs. I shall be bringing them to this list for help.
My Debian experience with 3.5.13+axis updates is extremely good, much better than 3.5.12
Here the major irritations are metapackages and recommends when installing. I spent a lot of time working out how to exclude (for me) unwanted stuff: kdeaccessibility, kmail, kdesudo, sudo-trinity, kgtk-qt3-trinity, kdegames, kdetoys, kdeadmin, kdenetwork, kpackage ..... Some are on the bug list and can affect the entire system.
I certainly don't want networking nor system admin tasks dependent on any DE
For example, why are kdesudo-trinity and kpackage-trinity "recommends" of kaffeine-trinity? This is in the bug list.
With the bloat (probably also numerous buggy packages) out, TDE is still found here to be the most functional DE available.
Any needed package can be installed individually. For the user-essential ones with unresolved bugs there is almost always a gtk alternative.
The core system DE is what really matters, that is already mostly good in Debian. I have TDE 3.5.13+axis on squeeze, wheezy and sid.
How can anyone even hope to keep up with distros that hack packages from Debian Unstable and release on a tight schedule, having themselves a reputation for bugginess?
I would be happy to see "kde-trinity" removed as the official install method, maybe replaced with some more modular metas. Bloat always was an issue when kde3x was "mainstream"
David
On Tuesday 03 July 2012 17:43:29 David Hare wrote:
Here the major irritations are metapackages and recommends when installing. I spent a lot of time working out how to exclude (for me) unwanted stuff: kdeaccessibility, kmail, kdesudo, sudo-trinity, kgtk-qt3-trinity, kdegames, kdetoys, kdeadmin, kdenetwork, kpackage ..... Some are on the bug list and can affect the entire system.
I certainly don't want networking nor system admin tasks dependent on any DE
For example, why are kdesudo-trinity and kpackage-trinity "recommends" of kaffeine-trinity? This is in the bug list.
With the bloat (probably also numerous buggy packages) out, TDE is still found here to be the most functional DE available.
This is where ignorance is most definitely _not_ bliss. (Is it ever?) I lag a long way behind you in knowledge of the nitty gritty. So, there is my solution! Get my head down and become more competent! I'm all for avoiding buggy unwanted packages - but have no idea how to exclude them. Other than by installing things one by one, of course, but it doesn't seem to be feasible for the base system.
Lisi
On 04/07/12 09:34, Lisi wrote:
On Tuesday 03 July 2012 17:43:29 David Hare wrote:
Here the major irritations are metapackages and recommends when installing. I spent a lot of time working out how to exclude (for me) unwanted stuff: kdeaccessibility, kmail, kdesudo, sudo-trinity, kgtk-qt3-trinity, kdegames, kdetoys, kdeadmin, kdenetwork, kpackage ..... Some are on the bug list and can affect the entire system.
I certainly don't want networking nor system admin tasks dependent on any DE
For example, why are kdesudo-trinity and kpackage-trinity "recommends" of kaffeine-trinity? This is in the bug list.
With the bloat (probably also numerous buggy packages) out, TDE is still found here to be the most functional DE available.
This is where ignorance is most definitely _not_ bliss. (Is it ever?) I lag a long way behind you in knowledge of the nitty gritty. So, there is my solution! Get my head down and become more competent! I'm all for avoiding buggy unwanted packages - but have no idea how to exclude them. Other than by installing things one by one, of course, but it doesn't seem to be feasible for the base system.
Lisi
Solution: New tde-lite meta, hopefully referenced in the official installation instructions. Hopefully the deps and recommends of the main packages to be reviewed.
However, I know TDE devs have already a huge task.
I will make a deb and maybe post it unofficially, my usual method is a bit long-winded.
David
Solution: New tde-lite meta, hopefully referenced in the official installation instructions. Hopefully the deps and recommends of the main packages to be reviewed.
However, I know TDE devs have already a huge task.
I will make a deb and maybe post it unofficially, my usual method is a bit long-winded.
David
I'd really appreciate that thing.
BTW, how stable/well tested is exegnulinux_3.3_preview4.iso ? I'm going to have a class on debian software development in a fortnight and do definitly not want to throw KDE4 on my victims.
Nik
On Wednesday 04 July 2012 13:12:17 David Hare wrote:
On 04/07/12 09:34, Lisi wrote:
This is where ignorance is most definitely _not_ bliss. (Is it ever?) I lag a long way behind you in knowledge of the nitty gritty. So, there is my solution! Get my head down and become more competent! I'm all for avoiding buggy unwanted packages - but have no idea how to exclude them. Other than by installing things one by one, of course, but it doesn't seem to be feasible for the base system.
Solution: New tde-lite meta, hopefully referenced in the official installation instructions. Hopefully the deps and recommends of the main packages to be reviewed.
However, I know TDE devs have already a huge task.
I will make a deb and maybe post it unofficially, my usual method is a bit long-winded.
Thanks, David. You are, to use a term that was probably obsolete long before you were born, a brick!
Lisi
Dne út 3. července 2012 Lisi napsal(a):
Hi, Slávek!
Please scrap the email I inadvertently sent to you off-list last night.
I now cannot see why I couldn't resolve the error that I have an error message for; it looks simple to resolve. And where I have no error messages, there is no-where to start.
So I clearly need to get access to the computer and start again. Which is sadly unlikely to be before the release. It is, as I have said, 10 miles away, and I am temporarily housebound.
Lisi
Hi Lisi
With Kaffeine maybe it was the problem with unnecessary dependence on kpackage and kdesudo. For normal use are not needed and install-codecs are not part of the package. I think that these dependencies could be removed. Any objections?
With flash plugin I have two problems: 1) I hate it (but probably do not need to repair it ;) ) 2) version 11.x on my machine crashes at every opportunity - in fact, does nothing else (in Iceweasel and Chromium, in Konqueror I have flash disabled). While version 10.x works without problems.
Does anyone have such problems with the version 11.x? Or does it to me because I hate him? ;)
Problems with digikam database upgrade would need to be verified. However, I have included digikam to 3.5.13.1 only a few days ago (2012-06-08).
Slavek --
On Wednesday 04 July 2012 17:01:01 Slávek Banko wrote:
Dne út 3. července 2012 Lisi napsal(a):
Hi, Slávek!
Please scrap the email I inadvertently sent to you off-list last night.
I now cannot see why I couldn't resolve the error that I have an error message for; it looks simple to resolve. And where I have no error messages, there is no-where to start.
So I clearly need to get access to the computer and start again. Which is sadly unlikely to be before the release. It is, as I have said, 10 miles away, and I am temporarily housebound.
Lisi
Hi Lisi
With Kaffeine maybe it was the problem with unnecessary dependence on kpackage and kdesudo. For normal use are not needed and install-codecs are not part of the package. I think that these dependencies could be removed. Any objections?
With flash plugin I have two problems:
- I hate it (but probably do not need to repair it ;) )
- version 11.x on my machine crashes at every opportunity - in fact, does
nothing else (in Iceweasel and Chromium, in Konqueror I have flash disabled). While version 10.x works without problems.
Does anyone have such problems with the version 11.x? Or does it to me because I hate him? ;)
Problems with digikam database upgrade would need to be verified. However, I have included digikam to 3.5.13.1 only a few days ago (2012-06-08).
Hi, Slávek,
Thanks for those. :-) I'll try them as soon as I get access.
I don't use Flash myself, but my users sometimes (=usually) want to!!
Lisi
Re flash: I get better results using flash-plugin-nonfree (11.2 r202) and iceweasel (12.0) from Debian Backports. Flash was always a problem for Linux users, thanks proprietary software vendors. A lot depends on hardware, graphics and cpu. Better on a core2 than single.
Re exegnulinux_3.3_preview4.iso: No it's not very well tested but at least nobody found anything wrong yet! It is probably already better than 3.2. It works in live mode and installs fine.
Re tde-lite-meta: I made one (first scrappy attempt)
http://exe-linux.fastfishwebsolutions.com/apt/pool/main/t/tde-lite-dzz/tde-l...
but maybe not much use except as an example, you probably don't want an extra repo enabled; obviously if not and you do dpkg -i the deps (core tde packages) can't be handled by apt.
Maybe till an "official" deb meta is made a simple bash script is better, e.g.
#!/bin/bash apt-get update for i in $(cat packagelist); do apt-get -y --force-yes install $i; done
I will revisit that later and post back. If anyone wants to unpack my deb and see the dep list, or rearrange it, or got a better idea, good.
Good to see kdesudo and kpackage out of kaffeine recommends.
Other bloat issues are timidity, freepats (recommends of soundkonverter?) but not looked in-depth at that yet.
Re: the original thread posting "is there a version of trinity that actually works"?
Yes. TDE 3.5.13+axis updates on Debian Squeeze, installed out of X from a selected package list.
My current "lite" package list (gives a very function system, it's what I use in exegnu):
kdebase-trinity amarok-trinity ark-trinity gwenview-trinity gtk-qt-engine-trinity k3b-trinity k3b-data-trinity kaddressbook-trinity kaffeine-trinity kcalc-trinity karm-trinity kate-plugins-trinity kcoloredit-trinity kcron-trinity kde-core-trinity kde-i18n-engb-trinity kde-i18n-es-trinity kde-style-qtcurve-trinity kdeaddons-kfile-plugins-trinity kdeartwork-trinity kdeartwork-emoticons-trinity kdeartwork-misc-trinity kdeartwork-style-trinity kdeartwork-theme-icon-trinity kdeartwork-theme-window-trinity kdebase-kio-plugins-trinity kdeeject-trinity kdegraphics-kfile-plugins-trinity kdelibs-trinity kdelibs-data-trinity kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins-trinity kdf-trinity kdiff3-trinity kdirstat-trinity kdm-trinity libkcddb1-trinity libtqt3-integration-trinity kregexpeditor-trinity kget-trinity kghostview-trinity kicker-applets-trinity kio-locate-trinity kipi-plugins-trinity kmix-trinity knemo-trinity knotes-trinity konq-plugins-trinity konqueror-trinity konversation-trinity kpdf-trinity kpowersave-trinity kscreensaver-trinity kscreensaver-xsavers-trinity ksensors-trinity ksnapshot-trinity ksplash-engine-moodin-trinity ksvg-trinity ktorrent-trinity kuser-trinity kwin-style-crystal-trinity soundkonverter-trinity
On Wednesday 04 of July 2012 20:58:21 David Hare wrote:
Re flash: I get better results using flash-plugin-nonfree (11.2 r202) and iceweasel (12.0) from Debian Backports. Flash was always a problem for Linux users, thanks proprietary software vendors. A lot depends on hardware, graphics and cpu. Better on a core2 than single.
I use flash player in packages from deb-multimedia. There is regularly updated. These packages include a flash player directly - it's not just a downloader. Iceweasel I use ESR versions.
I tried flash player 11.x on the test machine, and there seems to be working. The difference I see so far only in the fact that the test machine is amd64, while there, where crashes are i686. So I'll try it next time at their working machines...
Slavek --
On Friday 29 June 2012 10:55:06 Lisi wrote:
I felt that the decision was the wrong one, and so, luckily, apparently did Slàvek. But if I am not going to do things for myself, whatever the reason, I just have to accept what other people are prepared to offer.
Sorry, Tim. That doesn't read back well, and is more open to misinterpretation even than the generality of emails.
I was, at the time that I knew about that decision, still feeling slightly prickly about the Ubuntu release-on-schedule-whatever-the-cost mentality. I apologise for my choice of words. I immensely admire, and am profoundly grateful for, all the hard work and dedication that you and the other developers put in. Moreover, your explanation makes sense, so I was even wrong. :-(
"prepared to offer" is also an ungracious way of saying it. I was just trying to express what is more usually and colloquially phrased as "put up, or shut up". If I am unwilling or unable to do things for myself, I must just be grateful for what other people are being generous enough to offer me.
So again, many thanks to you and all the others who work so hard to give us Trinity.
Lisi