On Sunday 16 September 2012 18:23:19 Slávek Banko wrote: > On Saturday 15 of September 2012 11:26:06 Lisi wrote: > > Hello all :-) > > > > I am doing a fresh install of Trinity, on a fresh install of Debian > > Squeeze, > > > which so far has no GUI installed. > > > > After I issue: > > aptitude install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity > > > > I get a list of 165 recommends and the question: do you accept this > > solution? > > > Well, I think that there are 165, but the first that I can currently see > > is > > > number 147. Having dismally failed to find a way to see what I am being > > asked to agree to, I decided to accept all recommends, which might at > > least > > > reduce the number of things on the screen and let me see what else, if > > anything, aptitude is telling me. (Oh, I do miss konsole!) > > > > So I did: > > aptitude -r install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity > > > > That made no difference at all. Still a problem, still 165 recommends > > (as far > > > as I can see), still: do you accept this solution? And I still don't > > know > > > what "solution" it is recommending. It might be suggesting _removing_ > > 165 > > > packages. > > > > So, in case I had gone bonkers and got the order wrong I tried: > > aptitude install -r desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity > > > > Same result. :-( > > > > I am fresh out of ideas. I have had enough physical problems building > > this > > > computer, without software problems as well. :-( > > > > Help! (And thank you, of course) > > > > Lisi > > I tried now to a very clean machine (my builder == not containing anything > other than the basic system). To: > > aptitude install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity > > I get: > > 0 packages upgraded, 553 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 367 MB of archives. After unpacking 950 MB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] That's what I expected, what had previously happened and what I did. The question is: is the problem hardware, software or mushyware (my brain)? And what do I do about it?? Thanks for your reply, Slavek. :-) Lisi Lisi