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Re: [trinity-users] Debian upgrade

From: "Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:05:36 +0100
Am Samstag, 22. Januar 2011 schrieb Brad Alexander:
> Since my wife prefers kde3 to kde4, I have kept lenny on her machine.
> Fortunately, with the upgrade to squeeze imminent, I found trinity.
> The install in lenny was smooth, but then I changed my apt.conf to
> point to testing and changed the trinity.list to point to , and if I
> do an apt-get dist-upgrade, it wants to deinstall all of trinity.
> aptitude full-upgrade spits out pages and pages of dependency
> problems, things which I would think would be upgraded in a dist- (or
> full-) upgrade.
>
> What is the proper path to upgrading a Debian box with trinity
> installed? I would like to get at least to testing, but would really
> prefer getting to sid, if trinity from squeeze will run there.

uninstall all of KDE3 (to get rid of KDE4 beeing pulled in), then make a 
dist-upgrade but watch out that it does not pull in any KDE4 packages - 
remove dependencies if necessary, then install trinty.

watch out, trinity saves it's configs in .trinty, kde in .kde :-)

nik


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