> Hello all,
>
> I've been watching the conversations on your Trinity users lists with
> great interest, but haven't had much time to participate myself. (I am not
> really a lurker, just busy!) Over the past couple years I keep trying to
> upgrade my system, especially after the Ubuntu family released 12.04 LTS.
> I got TDE to run pretty well on top of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Lubuntu, with
> varying degrees of success. It seems to run best on Lubuntu for some
> reason, perhaps because it is less cluttered with possibly conflicting
> software. When I get frustrated, I go back to go old Hardy Heron 8.04.2,
> which still runs best on my system; however, I am determined to stick with
> an up-to-date system, sooner or later, for obvious reasons. Hardy gets
> less and less functional with every passing day. But I like how it runs
> (or ran), with all my personal modifications. So I much appreciate all the
> hard work of the developers. I've read most of your discussions, trying to
> keep up with problems and fixes, and almost feel like I know some of you
> personally.
>
> Right now I'm running Trinity on top of Lubuntu 12.04 Precise, and it is
> stable and fast, and I've managed to fix a few problems myself, like
> windows that crash in Konqueror or Nautilus, etc.
>
> A couple things I really miss from my Hardy system, though: kshowmail and
> TorK. I like kshowmail, but any good email checker, which just shows
> headers, senders, etc. would be just as good. However, I have tried
> various biff-type programs, and they don't even seem to run. There are a
> couple others that look promising, but which either don't run at all, or
> at any rate don't run on Trinity.
>
> If somebody could create Trinity packages for kshowmail and TorK, I would
> be glad to give up my left arm, as I don't use it much anyway. TorK is the
> one that I really miss. Vidalia just doesn't cut it for me, and TorK had
> some special features that I miss. I looked through the packages and
> dependencies, and it seems like most or all of the dependencies are
> already part of Trinity.
>
> By the way, I did do a little research into alternative solutions. I tried
> enabling Maverick repositories, as suggested on one site, but it doesn't
> work. I tried downloading archived packages from various sources, then
> installing with gdebi-kde, etc.; that sometimes appears to work, but when
> I run TorK, nothing happens. I tried converting Slackware packages to .deb
> files using alien, but these also do not actually install. I tried
> compiling from source, and again, it seems to work, but only creates
> folders, and my system says that it is a virtual program.
>
> Any ideas, and I would be glad to try them, as I seem to have run out of
> other options. At present, building my own packages for TorK and
> dependencies is beyond my skill level.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Bill Morder

Hi Bill,

Can you please file request for packaging bug reports for both of those
packages at http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org?  We normally want to see links
to the latest source tarball of a particular software package in a request
for packaging bug as well.  This process ensures that we a.) do not
overlook a request and b.) that we can find the source files when the
request is being worked on.

Thanks!

Tim