due to a misunderstanding with my co-admin, the following happend:
the trinity sources where removed in the sources.list and afterwards 2 Dist upgrades where performed:
wheezy(7) -> jessie(8) jessie(8) -> strech(9)
now I'm unable to get rid of the installed trinity packages:
apt-get purge *-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package *-trinity E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression E: Couldn't find any package by regex '*-trinity'
But there are installled packages: dpkg -l | grep trinity ii akregator-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 RSS feed aggregator for KDE ii amor-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 a Trinity creature for your desktop ii ark-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 graphical archiving tool for Trinity ii arts-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+1 all sound system from the official KDE release [lots more]
Any advie, how to procede?
Am Samstag, 17. März 2018 schrieb Frank Lienhard:
due to a misunderstanding with my co-admin, the following happend:
the trinity sources where removed in the sources.list and afterwards 2 Dist upgrades where performed:
wheezy(7) -> jessie(8) jessie(8) -> strech(9)
now I'm unable to get rid of the installed trinity packages:
apt-get purge *-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package *-trinity E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression E: Couldn't find any package by regex '*-trinity'
But there are installled packages: dpkg -l | grep trinity ii akregator-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 RSS feed aggregator for KDE ii amor-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 a Trinity creature for your desktop ii ark-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 graphical archiving tool for Trinity ii arts-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+1 all sound system from the official KDE release [lots more]
Any advie, how to procede?
# COLUMNS=1000 aptitude purge $(dpkg -l|grep trinity|awk '{print $2}')
or
# COLUMNS=1000 aptitude purge $(dpkg -l|grep '4:3.5.13.2-0debian7'|awk '{print $2}')
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On 03/17/2018 06:39 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Samstag, 17. März 2018 schrieb Frank Lienhard:
due to a misunderstanding with my co-admin, the following happend:
the trinity sources where removed in the sources.list and afterwards 2 Dist upgrades where performed:
wheezy(7) -> jessie(8) jessie(8) -> strech(9)
now I'm unable to get rid of the installed trinity packages:
apt-get purge *-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package *-trinity E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression E: Couldn't find any package by regex '*-trinity'
But there are installled packages: dpkg -l | grep trinity ii akregator-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 RSS feed aggregator for KDE ii amor-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 a Trinity creature for your desktop ii ark-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 graphical archiving tool for Trinity ii arts-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+1 all sound system from the official KDE release [lots more]
Any advie, how to procede?
# COLUMNS=1000 aptitude purge $(dpkg -l|grep trinity|awk '{print $2}')
Not really:
open: 159; closed: 237; defer: 65; conflict: 127
.The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
1) bsd-mailx
2) cron
3) docbook-xml
4) enscript
5) exim4
6) exim4-base
7) exim4-daemon-light
8) festival
9) festlex-cmu
10) festlex-poslex
11) festvox-kallpc16k
12) foomatic-db-engine
13) git
14) gnuift
15) gnuift-perl
16) gthumb
17) gthumb-data
18) lib32gcc1
19) lib32stdc++6
20) libc6-i386 [up to 99), most not trinity related]
and about 30 unresolved, which will stay unresolved, which stay unresolved, which is ok, because I'll think, I'll handle that with apt-get.
or
# COLUMNS=1000 aptitude purge $(dpkg -l|grep '4:3.5.13.2-0debian7'|awk '{print $2}'
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On 03/17/2018 06:39 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Samstag, 17. März 2018 schrieb Frank Lienhard:
due to a misunderstanding with my co-admin, the following happend:
the trinity sources where removed in the sources.list and afterwards 2 Dist upgrades where performed:
wheezy(7) -> jessie(8) jessie(8) -> strech(9)
now I'm unable to get rid of the installed trinity packages:
apt-get purge *-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package *-trinity E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression E: Couldn't find any package by regex '*-trinity'
But there are installled packages: dpkg -l | grep trinity ii akregator-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 RSS feed aggregator for KDE ii amor-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 a Trinity creature for your desktop ii ark-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 graphical archiving tool for Trinity ii arts-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+1 all sound system from the official KDE release [lots more]
Any advie, how to procede?
# COLUMNS=1000 aptitude purge $(dpkg -l|grep trinity|awk '{print $2}')
OK, next solution from aptitude was better. Only some removes, from which most are re-installed as new version
or
# COLUMNS=1000 aptitude purge $(dpkg -l|grep '4:3.5.13.2-0debian7'|awk '{print $2}')
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On 03/17/2018 07:39 PM, Frank Lienhard wrote:
On 03/17/2018 06:39 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Samstag, 17. März 2018 schrieb Frank Lienhard:
due to a misunderstanding with my co-admin, the following happend:
the trinity sources where removed in the sources.list and afterwards 2 Dist upgrades where performed:
wheezy(7) -> jessie(8) jessie(8) -> strech(9)
now I'm unable to get rid of the installed trinity packages:
apt-get purge *-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package *-trinity E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression E: Couldn't find any package by regex '*-trinity'
But there are installled packages: dpkg -l | grep trinity ii akregator-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 RSS feed aggregator for KDE ii amor-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 a Trinity creature for your desktop ii ark-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 graphical archiving tool for Trinity ii arts-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+1 all sound system from the official KDE release [lots more]
Any advie, how to procede?
# COLUMNS=1000 aptitude purge $(dpkg -l|grep trinity|awk '{print $2}')
OK, next solution from aptitude was better. Only some removes, from which most are re-installed as new version
Sadly, not quite done:
Removing konqueror-trinity (4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/konqueror-trinity.prerm: 5: /var/lib/dpkg/info/konqueror-trinity.prerm: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: not found dpkg: error processing package konqueror-trinity (--remove): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
or
# COLUMNS=1000 aptitude purge $(dpkg -l|grep '4:3.5.13.2-0debian7'|awk '{print $2}')
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Am Samstag, 17. März 2018 schrieb Frank Lienhard:
On 03/17/2018 07:39 PM, Frank Lienhard wrote:
On 03/17/2018 06:39 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Samstag, 17. März 2018 schrieb Frank Lienhard:
due to a misunderstanding with my co-admin, the following happend:
the trinity sources where removed in the sources.list and afterwards 2 Dist upgrades where performed:
wheezy(7) -> jessie(8) jessie(8) -> strech(9)
now I'm unable to get rid of the installed trinity packages:
apt-get purge *-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package *-trinity E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression E: Couldn't find any package by regex '*-trinity'
But there are installled packages: dpkg -l | grep trinity ii akregator-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 RSS feed aggregator for KDE ii amor-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 a Trinity creature for your desktop ii ark-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 graphical archiving tool for Trinity ii arts-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+1 all sound system from the official KDE release [lots more]
Any advie, how to procede?
# COLUMNS=1000 aptitude purge $(dpkg -l|grep trinity|awk '{print $2}')
OK, next solution from aptitude was better. Only some removes, from which most are re-installed as new version
Sadly, not quite done:
Removing konqueror-trinity (4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/konqueror-trinity.prerm: 5: /var/lib/dpkg/info/konqueror-trinity.prerm: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: not found dpkg: error processing package konqueror-trinity (--remove): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
well, do what it says: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives has been moved to /usr/bin/update-alternatives, so please adapt /var/lib/dpkg/info/konqueror-trinity.prerm acordingly :-)
or
# COLUMNS=1000 aptitude purge $(dpkg -l|grep '4:3.5.13.2-0debian7'|awk '{print $2}')
Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
well, do what it says: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives has been moved to /usr/bin/update-alternatives, so please adapt /var/lib/dpkg/info/konqueror-trinity.prerm acordingly
or make a symlink temporary, but I guess this move was from stretch to buster, no?
regards
On Saturday 17 March 2018 10:35:53 Frank Lienhard wrote:
due to a misunderstanding with my co-admin, the following happend:
the trinity sources where removed in the sources.list and afterwards 2 Dist upgrades where performed:
wheezy(7) -> jessie(8) jessie(8) -> strech(9)
now I'm unable to get rid of the installed trinity packages:
apt-get purge *-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package *-trinity E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression E: Couldn't find any package by regex '*-trinity'
But there are installled packages: dpkg -l | grep trinity ii akregator-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 RSS feed aggregator for KDE ii amor-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 a Trinity creature for your desktop ii ark-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 graphical archiving tool for Trinity ii arts-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+1 all sound system from the official KDE release [lots more]
Any advie, how to procede?
First off, co-admin is a bad idea, but you probably know that already. I could not abide another person installing or removing items without my knowledge. Only one person can be admin on my system, but then I don't like sharing either computers or toothbrushes.
Second, did you try searching for *-tde to purge other items? Sometimes things get removed as dependencies. Also, try searching with weird terms like *trinity*, *tde*, etc., just to be sure.
Third, do you have another DE installed, or that you can install, like lxde or whatever? Also slim is a good idea. If necessary, remove everything tde or trinity (including the desktop-base-trinity and anything trinity-core or tde-core) then start over. You can use another minimal DE to get online and download packages.
Finally, I gave an account of my quick & dirty methods in a separate post; this saves me a lot of time, and I don't keep fumbling round with problems like this.
Bill
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On 03/18/2018 01:10 AM, William Morder wrote:
On Saturday 17 March 2018 10:35:53 Frank Lienhard wrote:
due to a misunderstanding with my co-admin, the following happend:
the trinity sources where removed in the sources.list and afterwards 2 Dist upgrades where performed:
wheezy(7) -> jessie(8) jessie(8) -> strech(9)
now I'm unable to get rid of the installed trinity packages:
apt-get purge *-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package *-trinity E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression E: Couldn't find any package by regex '*-trinity'
But there are installled packages: dpkg -l | grep trinity ii akregator-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 RSS feed aggregator for KDE ii amor-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 a Trinity creature for your desktop ii ark-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 graphical archiving tool for Trinity ii arts-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+1 all sound system from the official KDE release [lots more]
Any advie, how to procede?
First off, co-admin is a bad idea, but you probably know that already.
I could
not abide another person installing or removing items without my
knowledge.
Only one person can be admin on my system, but then I don't like sharing either computers or toothbrushes. Tell me that again, when you are in
Hospital with no internet connection and your son is the only one with some knowledge to do it and your mom bought a new printer for her computer, because she broke the old one by coverung vending slots. While you are on heavy medication. So yes I aggree you *might* come to bad decissions by that ;-)>
Second, did you try searching for *-tde to purge other items?
Sometimes things
get removed as dependencies. Also, try searching with weird terms like *trinity*, *tde*, etc., just to be sure. The problem is, that the
deinstallation doesn't work at all, because of unresolved conflicts from the upgrades.
Third, do you have another DE installed, or that you can install, like
lxde or
whatever? Also slim is a good idea. If necessary, remove everything
tde or
trinity (including the desktop-base-trinity and anything trinity-core or tde-core) then start over. You can use another minimal DE to get
online and
download packages. xfce is running also, but IIRC because of trinity
beeing installed first, the upgrade process tries to remove the xserver packages. Also the recommeted way to uninstall the trinity packages ends up with the suggestion to uninstall things like cron. Or to runn first "apt-get -f instll">
Finally, I gave an account of my quick & dirty methods in a separate
post;
this saves me a lot of time, and I don't keep fumbling round with
problems
like this. I may have a look at that. But right now it seems to be
less trouble to use xfce and theach the diffrences, maybe with a fresh install of debian and just rsync the home dirs..
Bill
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On Sunday 18 March 2018 03:16:55 Frank Lienhard wrote:
On 03/18/2018 01:10 AM, William Morder wrote:
On Saturday 17 March 2018 10:35:53 Frank Lienhard wrote:
due to a misunderstanding with my co-admin, the following happend:
the trinity sources where removed in the sources.list and afterwards 2 Dist upgrades where performed:
wheezy(7) -> jessie(8) jessie(8) -> strech(9)
now I'm unable to get rid of the installed trinity packages:
apt-get purge *-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package *-trinity E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression E: Couldn't find any package by regex '*-trinity'
But there are installled packages: dpkg -l | grep trinity ii akregator-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 RSS feed aggregator for KDE ii amor-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 a Trinity creature for your desktop ii ark-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 graphical archiving tool for Trinity ii arts-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+1 all sound system from the official KDE release [lots more]
Any advie, how to procede?
First off, co-admin is a bad idea, but you probably know that already.
I could
not abide another person installing or removing items without my
knowledge.
Only one person can be admin on my system, but then I don't like sharing either computers or toothbrushes. Tell me that again, when you are in
Hospital with no internet connection and your son is the only one with some knowledge to do it and your mom bought a new printer for her computer, because she broke the old one by coverung vending slots. While you are on heavy medication. So yes I aggree you *might* come to bad decissions by that ;-)>
Second, did you try searching for *-tde to purge other items?
Sometimes things
get removed as dependencies. Also, try searching with weird terms like *trinity*, *tde*, etc., just to be sure. The problem is, that the
deinstallation doesn't work at all, because of unresolved conflicts from the upgrades.
Third, do you have another DE installed, or that you can install, like
lxde or
whatever? Also slim is a good idea. If necessary, remove everything
tde or
trinity (including the desktop-base-trinity and anything trinity-core or tde-core) then start over. You can use another minimal DE to get
online and
download packages. xfce is running also, but IIRC because of trinity
beeing installed first, the upgrade process tries to remove the xserver packages. Also the recommeted way to uninstall the trinity packages ends up with the suggestion to uninstall things like cron. Or to runn first "apt-get -f instll">
Finally, I gave an account of my quick & dirty methods in a separate
post;
this saves me a lot of time, and I don't keep fumbling round with
problems
like this. I may have a look at that. But right now it seems to be
less trouble to use xfce and theach the diffrences, maybe with a fresh install of debian and just rsync the home dirs..
Your own predicament sounds worse than mine, so I won't criticize your choices about admin privileges being shared by more than one person. Not an ideal situation,
I was trying to help you avoid a total system reinstallation, but sometimes that's the only way.
As I point out in my "quick & dirty" method, I avoid these problems by saving the packages to an external drive, then use dpkg to install them when necessary.
If I can help, let me know.
Bill
Bill
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Your own predicament sounds worse than mine, so I won't criticize your choices about admin privileges being shared by more than one person. Not an ideal situation,
I know. But timewise it made not much difference in this situation, and it in fact the only computer I shared the admin rights. And yes ideal wnt down the tubes in this case, the moment I broke my leg...
I was trying to help you avoid a total system reinstallation, but sometimes that's the only way.
I guess so. At least time wise in this situation. The original idea was to keep it simple for my (old) mum and give her KD3 "forever". Sadly in the early time, that didn't worked out with trinity (not to be understood as a complain, it was just not ready at that moment).
As I point out in my "quick & dirty" method, I avoid these problems by saving the packages to an external drive, then use dpkg to install them when necessary.
In the beginning of KDE4 I thought I might use trinity myself, but went more "spartan" some time ago by using fluxbox. And since I learned, that this "special" user tends to forget things anyway, I use anydesk now to solve problems, which are the same anyway and are NOT depending on which DE is used, so maybe I just use software from the official repros to avoid trouble like this.
Am Sonntag, 18. März 2018 schrieb Frank Lienhard:
[...]
As I point out in my "quick & dirty" method, I avoid these problems by saving the packages to an external drive, then use dpkg to install them when necessary.
In the beginning of KDE4 I thought I might use trinity myself, but went more "spartan" some time ago by using fluxbox. And since I learned, that this "special" user tends to forget things anyway, I use anydesk now to solve problems, which are the same anyway and are NOT depending on which DE is used, so maybe I just use software from the official repros to avoid trouble like this.
If you stay with debian be prepared for systemd shooting it's foot in creative ways ...
On 03/18/2018 04:01 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Sonntag, 18. März 2018 schrieb Frank Lienhard:
[...]
As I point out in my "quick & dirty" method, I avoid these problems by saving the packages to an external drive, then use dpkg to install them when necessary.
In the beginning of KDE4 I thought I might use trinity myself, but went more "spartan" some time ago by using fluxbox. And since I learned, that this "special" user tends to forget things anyway, I use anydesk now to solve problems, which are the same anyway and are NOT depending on which DE is used, so maybe I just use software from the official repros to avoid trouble like this.
If you stay with debian be prepared for systemd shooting it's foot in creative ways ...
Yeah, name my fears. Thanks! Seriously: I won't change a lot on that system anyway, so nevermind. And surely I won't install my first non-debian system NOT on a computer, which is not in my direct reach...
As a second step I'll watch out for devuan. And I'm all ears for better choices, but until now I haven't found a better support forum in my native tongue (german) other than debian. (Yeah, I know. But sometimes it is easier to have this problems discussed in your navite language)
On Sunday 18 March 2018 08:10:02 Frank Lienhard wrote:
On 03/18/2018 04:01 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Sonntag, 18. März 2018 schrieb Frank Lienhard:
[...]
As I point out in my "quick & dirty" method, I avoid these problems by saving the packages to an external drive, then use dpkg to install them when necessary.
In the beginning of KDE4 I thought I might use trinity myself, but went more "spartan" some time ago by using fluxbox. And since I learned, that this "special" user tends to forget things anyway, I use anydesk now to solve problems, which are the same anyway and are NOT depending on which DE is used, so maybe I just use software from the official repros to avoid trouble like this.
If you stay with debian be prepared for systemd shooting it's foot in creative ways ...
Yeah, name my fears. Thanks! Seriously: I won't change a lot on that system anyway, so nevermind. And surely I won't install my first non-debian system NOT on a computer, which is not in my direct reach...
As a second step I'll watch out for devuan. And I'm all ears for better choices, but until now I haven't found a better support forum in my native tongue (german) other than debian. (Yeah, I know. But sometimes it is easier to have this problems discussed in your navite language)
I would take the time to learn Debian first, as there is much more support. But I am very impressed by Devuan. The devs and admins seem to know what they are doing, and only lack resources and time. Other forks look rather amateurish by comparison, but Devuan looks almost like an exact clone of all the best about Debian (namely, stability, and control for the user), and gets rid of the questionable stuff like systemd and dbus.
Still, I tried Devuan a couple times already, and had issues, and am preparing to give it another go. If I were attempting to do this in another language, I would have problems. (And German would come about #12 on my list.)
Bill
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On Sunday 18 March 2018 08:01:39 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Sonntag, 18. März 2018 schrieb Frank Lienhard:
[...]
As I point out in my "quick & dirty" method, I avoid these problems by saving the packages to an external drive, then use dpkg to install them when necessary.
In the beginning of KDE4 I thought I might use trinity myself, but went more "spartan" some time ago by using fluxbox. And since I learned, that this "special" user tends to forget things anyway, I use anydesk now to solve problems, which are the same anyway and are NOT depending on which DE is used, so maybe I just use software from the official repros to avoid trouble like this.
If you stay with debian be prepared for systemd shooting it's foot in creative ways ...
Already doing my homework online. If anybody wants links to Devuan stuff, by the way, I found some interesting posts about what to install and purge, and how to enable networking before installation (thus solving a big problem with Debian-type installations); how to get rid of both systemd and dbus.
I hear that systemd is better in many ways, and that there really are two sides to this story. However, I see how systemd performs on my system all the time (especially when I try to shutdown or reboot), and I long for the simple, slow sanity of sysvinit again.
Bill
On Sunday 18 March 2018 07:50:18 Frank Lienhard wrote:
Your own predicament sounds worse than mine, so I won't criticize your choices about admin privileges being shared by more than one person. Not an ideal situation,
I know. But timewise it made not much difference in this situation, and it in fact the only computer I shared the admin rights. And yes ideal wnt down the tubes in this case, the moment I broke my leg...
I was trying to help you avoid a total system reinstallation, but sometimes that's the only way.
I guess so. At least time wise in this situation. The original idea was to keep it simple for my (old) mum and give her KD3 "forever". Sadly in the early time, that didn't worked out with trinity (not to be understood as a complain, it was just not ready at that moment).
As I point out in my "quick & dirty" method, I avoid these problems by saving the packages to an external drive, then use dpkg to install them when necessary.
In the beginning of KDE4 I thought I might use trinity myself, but went more "spartan" some time ago by using fluxbox. And since I learned, that this "special" user tends to forget things anyway, I use anydesk now to solve problems, which are the same anyway and are NOT depending on which DE is used, so maybe I just use software from the official repros to avoid trouble like this.
There is another member here who was preaching the virtues of the Knoppix OS to me; which I had tried about ten years ago, but found that it didn't suit me. However, he didn't want to give up that I ought to try it. And I probably will check it out, because I do like to try new things. Another person here wants me to try Slax, and I am sure that I will try that, as well. And now I find myself wanting to help you keep running TDE, because I do really like the old KDE3 desktop, and hate pretty much all the newer ones (though I do keep trying them out).
The one motif that is constant in all this is that we each get into our own comfortable routines and habits, and because they work for us, we feel that they are the best, or even the only right ways, of doing things.
If I can be of help, please let me know. I was thinking, I could upload my working TDE-Trinity packages to a Dropbox account, and you could download them directly from there, and use my quick & dirty method; but even then, you might have other programs and dependencies which would cause this not to work.
Bill
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