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Lost TDE programs
by Jonesy 05 May '26

05 May '26

Yikes!! I finally got past the Ubuntu DDoS and successfully updated my 24.04 machine last night -- together with updating Trinity to the new release. In that process I received the "...installed but no long needed" display containing A LARGE number of programs. I hand-checked several and it appeared that the new Trinity release was renaming trinity-<programs> to <programs>. So, nevously, I ran the "sudo apt autoremove' -- which, indeed, remove A LARGE number of programs. The system seemed ok after the update and I shut it down for the night. This morning I powered it up and soon found that `kwrite` did not exist. I checked `kate`, and it, too, was gone. Probably A LARGE number of other Trinity programs/utilities are gone, too. If I try to run "sudo apt-get install kwrite", the process wants to install a monstrous list of KDE stuff! -- which I did not do. I need advice on how to proceed and correct this. Too bizarre, Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ | linux Pueblo, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | FreeBSD __ 38.238N 104.547W | jonz.net | DM78rf | SK

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Darkness - 1. May 2026 version :) ... oops, typo in URL
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 04 May '26

04 May '26

Hi All! Sorry, here comes the correct URL ... I just finised uploading the latest version of "darkness". Biggest changes: - TDE 14.2.0-DEVELOPMENT - Xlibre 25.0.0 - new background images - kernel 7.0.3 - own repository for darkness-specific packages (ATM a package for the repo and the wallpapers) Notes: - Persistent partition at 3GB when booting the ISO from a USB stick: As long as any future ISO written to the stick is smaller than 3GB the data on the partition is unaffected. - Virtualbox/VMware guest graphics: mesa has deprecated gallium-xa. When you run inside an affected guest then xserver-xlibre-video-vmware is automatically downgraded to 13.4.0.1-2 - Laguage: TDE language packs of unused languages are removed when booting from iso, so that translations of missing texts come from english and not from any other language pack - deactivate 3D acceleration on Lenovo X61 / Intel GM965/GL960 Download: - https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20260501.iso - https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20260501.iso.sha256 Some Images: https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20260501-0.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20260501-1.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20260501-2.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20260501-3.png Thumbnails of all new wallpapers: https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20260501-wallpapers.png Announcement in Devuan Forum: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=63519#p63519 Please feel free to download and try .. and post your experience :D Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Darkness - 1. May 2026 version :)
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 01 May '26

01 May '26

Hi All! I just finised uploading the latest version of "darkness". Biggest changes: - TDE 14.2.0-DEVELOPMENT - Xlibre 25.0.0 - new background images - kernel 7.0.3 - own repository for darkness-specific packages (ATM a package for the repo and the wallpapers) Notes: - Persistent partition at 3GB when booting the ISO from a USB stick: As long as any future ISO written to the stick is smaller than 3GB the data on the partition is unaffected. - Virtualbox/VMware guest graphics: mesa has deprecated gallium-xa. When you run inside an affected guest then xserver-xlibre-video-vmware is automatically downgraded to 13.4.0.1-2 - Laguage: TDE language packs of unused languages are removed when booting from iso, so that translations of missing texts come from english and not from any other language pack - deactivate 3D acceleration on Lenovo X61 / Intel GM965/GL960 Download: - https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250501.iso - https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250501.iso.sha256 Some Images: https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20260501-0.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20260501-1.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20260501-2.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20260501-3.png Thumbnails of all new wallpapers: https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20260501-wallpapers.png Announcement in Devuan Forum: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=63519#p63519 Please feel free to download and try .. and post your experience :D Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Wanted to install Trinity... But, I had a ton of problems
by CHRIS M 01 May '26

01 May '26

I Wanted to install Trinity... But, I had a ton of problems..... Debian 13: Fresh install, I never had the TDM log in screen, I just got dropped down to a terminal to log in. https://imgur.com/a/LTIKQCw Then, I never could get my bluetooth Alexa speaker to work to play sound. Soooo.................. I installed OpenSUSE Leap 16. And the command for one of the repos kept erroring out: http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/rpm/oss156/trinity-r14/RPMS/x8… trinity That repo kept 404'ing and saying that I need to check the repo, and to point the repo to a repo that ends in .repo, I believe the error said. So, I tried changing the "0ss156" part to "0ss160" for Leap 16.0, and that part didn't work either. *SHRUGS* Thanks, Chris chris(a)cwm030.com

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