> 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 Hi, Tim: The main dependency required by tork is kdelibs4c2a (along with some others that go along with it). This is already in Trinity, but doesn't work with tork, because something like tork-trinity (I presume) is needed. It seems that the tork package would also fit into these two pages, am I correct? http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7 http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411 There is also another page marked as resolved: http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148 A quick search shows that there are some other packages affected by this dependency problem. I've added my comment to these pages, and also filed a bug report requesting package tork-trinity. http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1479 Not sure if I'm doing this right, but if not, somebody can tell me what they need. Bill (a.k.a., Enkidu)