On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:21:43 EDT Curt Howland wrote:
On Tuesday 07 June 2022, gene heskett was heard to say:
Between blltty, orca and the new kde, I'm admitting defeat.
I'm sorry, dependency hell is no fun. No fun at all.
So the first question is how do I install tde to debian-11-3?
The way I've done it is to install a base Debian with XFCE, everything just defaults. I've also done a base install without any desktop at all, no XFCE, Gnome, KDE, etc. No X environment. TDE correctly depends upon "desktop-base" and the X applications and graphical support are all imported correctly with "tde-trinity".
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list with the TDE repository, download and add the signing keys by hand (even though it's deprecated apt-key install tde.asc still works fine).
And I'm still missing that entry in the sources.d directory. Please cat it, copy/paste into a reply.
Since I use dselect for package management, I do a quick search for "tde-trinity" and press +. I'm sure "apt-get install tde-trinity" would work just as well.
That's it.
As an aside, I've also annually archived my .trinity directory in its entirety and by restoring that before the install I have kept all the addresses, defaults, colors, and style which I've created over the years and prefer. But that's all just window dressing.
And window dressing means continuity. Good idea.
Curt-
-- You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. --- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"
Cheers, Gene Heskett.