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. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
