> On 29 Oct 2017, at 01:19, Sl�vek Banko <slavek.banko@...> wrote: > >> On Saturday 28 of October 2017 02:36:30 Greg Madden wrote: >> 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 > > Because problems with key servers availability are too common, I added the > axis-archive-keyring package to the apt repository - see the description > added on wiki. > > Cheers > -- > Sl�vek > Thanks Sl�vek. Thought I would give this a try . It did resolve mirror.xcer.cz but the connection then timed out over 5 tries. Perhaps someone else might try this in case for some reason my IP address is a factor ? Ping mirror.xcer.cz also failed. I do have a working internet connection as ping google.ie (my country Google domain) was absolutely fine with no packet loss Padraig