On Saturday 12 November 2011 11:41:49 pm Laurent Dard wrote: > To all Debian users who are experimenting problems to install Trinity. > > There was a bug with Qt3 versioning, in the Debian version of Trinity > 3.5.13. (http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=583) > > If the following command: > dpkg -l|grep 3:3.3.8-d-0ubuntu0 > is listing some packages, you'll have to force a "downgrade" from version > "3:3.3.8-d-0ubuntu0+sr73+pr181~squeeze" to version > "3:3.3.8d-0ubuntu0+sr73+pr181~squeeze". > > Here is a script to do the job: > > OLDVERSION=3:3.3.8-d-0ubuntu0+sr73+pr181~squeeze > NEWVERSION=3:3.3.8d-0ubuntu0+sr73+pr181~squeeze > for f in `dpkg -l | grep $OLDVERSION | awk '{print $2}'` ; do > apt-get install $f=$NEWVERSION > done Thanks for the script, not something I would figure out myself. I have used it successfully on three 3.5..13 machines here, though they were running okay. I have seen the 'kdeinit failed message' on a 3.5.12 box that I tried, and failed, to upgrade to 3.5.13. -- Peace, Greg