On Sunday 18 March 2018 03:16:55 Frank Lienhard wrote: > On 03/18/2018 01:10 AM, William Morder wrote: > > On Saturday 17 March 2018 10:35:53 Frank Lienhard wrote: > >> due to a misunderstanding with my co-admin, the following happend: > >> > >> the trinity sources where removed in the sources.list and afterwards 2 > >> Dist upgrades where performed: > >> > >> wheezy(7) -> jessie(8) > >> jessie(8) -> strech(9) > >> > >> now I'm unable to get rid of the installed trinity packages: > >> > >> apt-get purge *-trinity > >> Reading package lists... Done > >> Building dependency tree > >> Reading state information... Done > >> E: Unable to locate package *-trinity > >> E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression > >> E: Couldn't find any package by regex '*-trinity' > >> > >> But there are installled packages: > >> dpkg -l | grep trinity > >> ii akregator-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 > >> amd64 RSS feed aggregator for KDE > >> ii amor-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 > >> amd64 a Trinity creature for your desktop > >> ii ark-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 > >> amd64 graphical archiving tool for Trinity > >> ii arts-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+1 > >> all sound system from the official KDE release > >> [lots more] > >> > >> Any advie, how to procede? > > > > First off, co-admin is a bad idea, but you probably know that already. > > I could > > > not abide another person installing or removing items without my > > knowledge. > > > Only one person can be admin on my system, but then I don't like sharing > > either computers or toothbrushes. Tell me that again, when you are in > > Hospital with no internet connection and your son is the only one with > some knowledge to do it and your mom bought a new printer for her > computer, because she broke the old one by coverung vending slots. While > you are on heavy medication. > So yes I aggree you *might* come to bad decissions by that ;-)> > > > Second, did you try searching for *-tde to purge other items? > > Sometimes things > > > get removed as dependencies. Also, try searching with weird terms like > > *trinity*, *tde*, etc., just to be sure. The problem is, that the > > deinstallation doesn't work at all, because of unresolved conflicts from > the upgrades. > > > Third, do you have another DE installed, or that you can install, like > > lxde or > > > whatever? Also slim is a good idea. If necessary, remove everything > > tde or > > > trinity (including the desktop-base-trinity and anything trinity-core or > > tde-core) then start over. You can use another minimal DE to get > > online and > > > download packages. xfce is running also, but IIRC because of trinity > > beeing installed first, the upgrade process tries to remove the xserver > packages. > Also the recommeted way to uninstall the trinity packages ends up with > the suggestion to uninstall things like cron. > Or to runn first "apt-get -f instll"> > > > Finally, I gave an account of my quick & dirty methods in a separate > > post; > > > this saves me a lot of time, and I don't keep fumbling round with > > problems > > > like this. I may have a look at that. But right now it seems to be > > less trouble to use xfce and theach the diffrences, maybe with a fresh > install of debian and just rsync the home dirs.. > Your own predicament sounds worse than mine, so I won't criticize your choices about admin privileges being shared by more than one person. Not an ideal situation, I was trying to help you avoid a total system reinstallation, but sometimes that's the only way. As I point out in my "quick & dirty" method, I avoid these problems by saving the packages to an external drive, then use dpkg to install them when necessary. If I can help, let me know. Bill > > Bill > > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: > >> trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > >> commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > >> list messages on the web archive: > >> http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > >> top-post: > >> http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > trinity-users-help@... > > > Read list messages on the web archive: > > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > > > Please remember not to top-post: > > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read list > messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting