On 2022-09-11 19:53:24 William Morder via tde-users wrote: > On Sunday 11 September 2022 17:00:52 J Leslie Turriff wrote: > > I have acquired a used HP Probook 440 G5, on which I have installed > > Devuan Chimaera. The Chimaera installer balked at adding > > > > | deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib > > | non-free deb-src http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security > > | main contrib non-free > > > > which continue to fail to work after the install completed; I'm not sure > > just what they provide and if they are really necessary; I couldn't find > > any useful information about them in a web search. > > Perhaps these need to be working before installing Trinity? I followed > > the install instructions in the Trinity Wiki page > > <https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Devuan_Trinity_Repository_Installation_I > >ns tructions>, but > > > > | apt-get update > > > > fails with 'E: The repository ... does not have a Release file.' (see > > attached command output, etc.). > > Since all of my experience with Linux has been with openSUSE and RedHat, > > I'm not sure what to do to resolve these issues. Help!? :-) > > > > Leslie > > -- > > Operating System: Linux > > Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64 > > Desktop Environment: Trinity > > Qt: 3.5.0 > > TDE: R14.0.12 > > tde-config: 1.0 > > You might need to add or update the keyring for Trinity. I didn't include that step in the output above because it worked correctly, creating | trinity-keyring.deb in root's directory. > Otherwise, if this is only a problem getting your machine to recognize these repos, then you can do this: > > # Trinity - TDE - ### Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories > # sudo torify apt-get -o Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories=true update > # sudo apt-get -o Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories=true update I guess the ### should be separate lines? and this might correct the '... does not have a Release file.'? > > (copied from my own sources list) > torify = only if you do everything over Tor > > This is not a permanent solution, by any means, and I'm not sure if that's > your problem. In any case, security-minded persons will probably raise a > ruckus and tell you NOT TO DO THIS!!!!!! They will also tell you not to run > with scissors, and not to direct the laser point into your remaining good > eye. But if you just need to get started, try that, as a temporary fix. Okay, I'll give it a try. > > Bill > > > P.S. I changed my TDE repositories to Debian names rather than Devnuan, > because for TDE itself I don't think it matters; I think references to > Devuan packages in the Trinity repos just redirect to give you Debian > packages. For the most part, Debian and Devuan are identical; just not when > you are actually installing from the non-TDE Debian or Devuan repositories. > Then you must choose correctly. But TDE might work better if you specify > Debian instead. I guess this is just a matter of changing .devuan.org to .debian.org in the offending lines? (Sorry; this is my first time experience with non-RPM based Linux.) Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.12 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ 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
