Apologies for top-answer. Desktop machine is not fully configured yet, and the ProtonMail native app for Android (running on GrapheneOS on a Pixel tablet) remains uncivilized. First, thanks for everybody's help. I can now say pretty confidently that the cute recipe I linked earlier doesn't work. So it was install from scratch. Which, as it turns out, is fine once one gets past the exceptionally flaky Debian partitioning page. It read *almost* everything correctly. What it got wrong was the / partition, which was ext4 but it insisted was EFI. I finally prevailed upon it and things proceeded nicely, and in due course I was at a Plasma login, because I know it *a little*. The Debians, perhaps to punish Miguel de Icaza for leaving the church, no longer ship mc by default. There ought to be a severe punishment for this. Also for getting rid of the "shutdown" command. I do not care if it is kludgy, I have been using it t for almost 26 years and am/was happy with it. The punishment I meted out was immediately adding the TDE repo to /etc/sources.list and installing TDE -- yes, this time I got the key ahead of time. I was unsurprised that many applications are not on the new desktop; I'll be adding them over the next ine to five years as I discover their absence. (Also gone by default was anything having to do with "sudo," which takes me back to the last millennium.) Happy to report that all userdata and configurations, afaik, survived undamaged. Yes, Nik, I have two full backups of the entire boot drive with /home on the machine. Grub, when it grubbing, even found one of 'em, and I expect that it will be helpful in the coming days. Was and am annoyed that it found and connected to my router without ever asking me for the password. This leads me to think there will be trouble ahead when I set up the VPN. So I am Ubuntu-free, except for the backups and the dinky GPD Pocket machine; I might fiddle with that at some point. Again, thanks for everybody's help. The world could really use an application that switches from one distribution to another. (I think it would be just as popular if it were only Ubuntu to something else; that's the way the current is flowing, what with Ubuntu holding upgrades hostage and its snap nonsense. Screw 'em.) TDE is a *great* desktop; but its greatest aspect is its users, who are unfailingly helpful, patient, and kind. dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ -------- Original Message -------- On 9/13/24 02:00, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anno domini 2024 Thu, 12 Sep 23:55:51 +0000 > dep via tde-users scripsit: > > So, before trying the correct method (which is strangely made difficult by my maching now refusing to boot from USB for no reason I can find), I thought I would try to switch to Debian via a strange recipe that probably won't work: > > > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/344408/migrate-from-ubuntu-to-debian-and-take-the-application-data-along > > That's an interesing way to make yourself a busy day. Reason_ in contrast to e.g. FreeBSD the sysadmin tools on linux are not available in a static linked version, You may end up cutting the branch you sit on (and yes, it happened to me). > > I assume you have made a full backup of your users data? > > Nik > > > > > Problem is the Debian pubkey, which does not exist on my machine. The keyring stuff in the recipe does not, best I can tell, resemble current reality. Of course, without it the whole apt-get business explodes in a cloud of unsignedness. > > > > Anybody know where I can get the Debian pubkey? > > > > dep > > Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album > > Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ > > ____________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > -- > Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... > ____________________________________________________ > 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 ____________________________________________________ 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
