On Tue, 5 May 2026 13:17:59 -0000 (UTC), Jonesy via tde-users wrote:
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.
So, I gave in and restored from a backup of the system files as of May 3. ( https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift ) I had `timeshift` installed on the system from day 1, but it's daily operations annoyed me. So I cut it back to once-a-week -- Saturday. I'm now glad I didn't uninstall it at that time -- I had thought about doing that.
Of course, I want to move to the new release of Trinity. But I will proceed carefully, slowly, and document all the surprises and results -- in case I need to return here with the same $#&^*^ problem.
Thank you, all of you, that were trying to help!! I appreciate comforting voices. In my antiquity, I don't handle changes well. And when I'm dealt change+disaster, I start leaking sawdust.
Jonesy