On Sunday 16 of September 2012 17:38:19 Lisi wrote: > I have frequently installed Trinity before, 3.5.11, 3.5.12, 3.5.13, 3.5.13 > with Slavek's repositories. I have never had a problem before. > > I am getting desperate. I am running 3.5.10 on Lenny on my working m/c at the > moment, and the system is sickly. I *need* a working box. And I *need* > KMail in order to have continued access to my emails. > > I have been trying for hours over several days to install on a newbuild. I > have posted before about the problems I had initially. When I installed > desktop-base-trinity separately it went on without a hitch. I can find no > way of installing kde-trinity. > > Having tried for hours to install kde-trinity from where I had got to, I gave > in and installed LXDE. I immediately gained a functioning LXDE. I have > installed from inside LXDE frequently in the past. I have installed with > Slavek's repositories already enabled in the past. > > Having got my functioning LXDE, I again tried to install kde-trinity. Again > no success. Exactly the same result as before. > > I installed some of the missing packages manually, but most of them refused to > install. > > I have just tried again, and this time I got a shorter, and therefore legible, > list of problems, but most of the unresolved dependencies were virtual > packages and refused to install. > > The only thing that I can think of to try now is to do a default install of > Squeeze, get Gnome 3 (yuk!) and try to install from there. Any better ideas? > All suggestions welcomed. > > Lisi > Hi Lisi, from last weekend, I gradually upgrading all packages. It is possible that you could run into inconsistent state of apt source? A little while ago I updated sudo-trinity so that they will not conflict with sudo from the system. This should also help to smoother installation. Slávek --