On Tue, 5 May 2026 06:41:30 -0700, Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
On Tue May 5 2026 06:17:59 Jonesy via tde-users wrote:
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>.
It sounds like you installed something from KDE which conflicted with TDE causing a large chunk of TDE to be removed.
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 still possible, try to capture what actually happened from shell history and/or logfiles so that lessons can be learned.
Otherwise I suggest at this point that you follow the TDE instructions for a fresh TDE installation, not an upgrade, as you have to replace everything that was removed. Do not delete anything. Just install a fresh TDE over the scraps of whatever is left. And carefully decide what to do with any KDE conflicts that arise.
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Ubuntu_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Instr...
The instuctions and references there do not match (IIRC) with the way my system was built back in Sept/Oct 2024 -- which was done according to the online Trinity instructions at that time.
Doing the `aptitude install` resulted in jonesy@nix6:~$ sudo aptitude install kubuntu-default-settings-trinity kubuntu-desktop-trinity kubuntu-default-settings-trinity is already installed at the requested version (4:14.1.6-0ubuntu24.04.0+0) kubuntu-desktop-trinity is already installed at the requested version (4:14.1.6-0ubuntu24.04.0+0) kubuntu-default-settings-trinity is already installed at the requested version (4:14.1.6-0ubuntu24.04.0+0) kubuntu-desktop-trinity is already installed at the requested version (4:14.1.6-0ubuntu24.04.0+0) No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. jonesy@nix6:~$
So, Doing "reinstall" instead of "install" yields this: jonesy@nix6:~$ sudo aptitude reinstall kubuntu-default-settings-trinity kubuntu-desktop-trinity The following packages will be REINSTALLED: kubuntu-default-settings-trinity kubuntu-desktop-trinity 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/4,542 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. (Reading database ... 291077 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../kubuntu-default-settings-trinity_4%3a14.1.6-0ubuntu24.04.0+0_all.deb ... Unpacking kubuntu-default-settings-trinity (4:14.1.6-0ubuntu24.04.0+0) over (4:14.1.6-0ubuntu24.04.0+0) ... Preparing to unpack .../kubuntu-desktop-trinity_4%3a14.1.6-0ubuntu24.04.0+0_amd64.deb ... Unpacking kubuntu-desktop-trinity (4:14.1.6-0ubuntu24.04.0+0) over (4:14.1.6-0ubuntu24.04.0+0) ... Setting up kubuntu-default-settings-trinity (4:14.1.6-0ubuntu24.04.0+0) ... Setting up kubuntu-desktop-trinity (4:14.1.6-0ubuntu24.04.0+0) ... jonesy@nix6:~$
huh? No joy. There's got to be 'more' involved in a total reinstall! Jonesy