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 > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional >> commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... > 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 > >