On Friday 05 April 2019 14:04:16 Dave Lers wrote: > William Morder wrote: > > Speaking of which ... I know that there are a few third-party options > > with the > > TDE desktop already installed, but thus far none of them work for me. > > I've been very happy with community-pclinuxos64-tde-mini-2018.12.iso > https://pclosusers.com/communityiso/Trinity/ > > Yes, PCLinux was the very first Linux system that I tried, and that's where I discovered the KDE3 desktop. However, due to stability issues at the time, I switched to Kubuntu, and eventually to Debian then Devuan. I really want to stick with the Devuan sysvinit. Everything runs great, as I said, except for a few issues (addressed in other threads), and of course the fact that TDE doesn't "come with" as a standard menu choice for desktop. The reason I bring up this possibility is that it *seems* that a Devuan netinstall disc would be one of the easier ones to adapt, to make a Trinity version; but then, of course, I'm not the one creating the disc, and I definitely don't have time or inclination to roll my own at the moment. (But more about my extracurricular activities in a soon-to-be-started new thread ... oh, the suspense!) regarding Michael's suggestion: > >Hey Bill, > >I did a very successful Devuan 2 / TDE build by installing NO desktop in > >Devuan and then booting and using root prompt to install TDE. Worked very > >well, granted you need a second box to be able to read the commands from or > >have them in files on the install USB. > > > >I believe this is most of the files I used, lets see if they attach… > > > >Do check them against the current TDE wiki, they're possibly stale by now. > > > >Best, > >Michael > >tdedevuan.tar.gz * I'll definitely check out your packages! I did try something like this, but installing my TDE system from a root prompt (I think you mean the shell that is available in the "expert install - no gui" version?) doesn't go so smoothly for me, as I have a lot of packages; sort of my own private repository. And that, by the way, would be my preferred option, if we remain with no dev-created Trinity Devuan netinstall option. I would like to point my system to my Devuan and Trinity folders, and install from the packages there using apt-get, and let it find dependencies, rather than using dpkg, which necessitates many duplicate packages (the dependencies, etc.) in separate folders. If I could get my system to recognize an address within my own system, and use the packages in specified folders, and using apt-get to do it, that would be perfect. I seem to recall that long ago I did exactly that: created a sort of private repository within my own system, or maybe it was on my home network, but for the life of me, I can't recall how I got it set up, because nothing I've tried recently has worked. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
