On Friday 27 October 2017 03:13:00 pm Padraig Rocks wrote: > > On 26 October 2017 at 04:17 Greg Madden <gomadtroll@...> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 25 October 2017 03:25:29 pm Decarraig wrote: > > > Sent from my iPad > > > > > > > On 25 Oct 2017, at 00:21, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@...> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > The simple answer, there is no duplications, TDE adds only Trinity > > > > apps. > > > > > > > > Installing Debian there is the option to not install a DE during the > > > > install. I install "base + standard" then follow the directions on > > > > the wiki. > > > > > > > > I have standarized on TDE so having only one DE is my preference. I > > > > add non Trinity apps (+depends) as needed. > > > > > > > > greg > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Thanks Greg, > > > > > > Your suggestion as to how to install Debian worked. > > > > > > Because I installed Stretch I had to follow the wiki page > > > https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Preliminary_Stable_Builds > > > > > > Adding the repos to the sources list went fine but now I am stuck on > > > trying to install the GPG key - I keep getting "connection refused" > > > from keys.gnupg.net keyserver. > > > > > > Padraig > > > > I had to intall "dirmngr" to get "apt-key" to work. It is not part of > > base + standard utils tasks. > > > > "apt install dirmngr" > > > > greg > > Thanks - I had already installed dirmngr . Still couldn't get the GPG key. > After a bit of googling I found a similar issue where the solution offered > was to ping keys.gnupg.net and then to replace keys.gnupg.net with the IP > address identified in the ping output when using the apt-key adv command. > > This worked for me - although I am not entirely sure why. I presume that > some GPG related package was not included in the Debian base+standard utils > install. > > Trinity desktop now installed and running > > Padraig Cool, for the archives,\ I noticed after my "dirmngr" repone that it is a part of the "intallation instructions", havee not read them in some time :-) The instruction to install the key ( keys.gnupg.net keyserver) worked here on a new base + standard, thankfull for interent search. Greg