On Friday 27 April 2018 09:38:13 dep wrote:
> was just now trying to install the protonmail bridge bets, which is to
> allow existing email clients to work with protonmail. but the .deb install
> failed for lack of a litany of qt5 dependencies. i have a bunch of qt4
> things installed and they seem to work alongside tde perfectly well. so i
> sought to install qt5-essentials, the first of the dependencies. after
> which -- i typically install packages from the commandline -- i got this
> unhappy display:
>
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required: acpi amarok-common-trinity amarok-engine-xine-trinity
> amarok-trinity arts-trinity bluetooth bluez-utils crystalcursors
>   desktop-effects-tde-trinity dmz-cursor-theme fonts-arabeyes foo2zjs
>   fortune-mod fortunes-min fotoxx-common gir1.2-ges-1.0
>   gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0 gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 gir1.2-json-1.0
>   gstreamer1.0-gnonlin gtk-qt-engine-trinity gtk3-tqt-engine-trinity
>   gwenview-trinity kaffeine-trinity karm-trinity katapult-trinity
>   kbstate-trinity kdbusnotification-trinity keep-trinity kmag-trinity
>   kmailcvt-trinity kmousetool-trinity kmplayer-base-trinity
>   kmplayer-konq-plugins-trinity konversation-trinity kopete-trinity
>   kpf-trinity kppp-trinity krdc-trinity krfb-trinity
>   ksplash-engine-moodin-trinity ksystemlog-trinity ktorrent-trinity
>   kubuntu-default-settings-trinity kubuntu-konqueror-shortcuts-trinity
>   kvkbd-trinity landscape-client landscape-common lftp libavahi-tqt-1
>   libccfits0 libcfitsio3 libdbus-tqt-1-1c2 libges-1.0-0 libifp4
>   libjs-sphinxdoc libmp4v2-2 libnjb5 libqt5concurrent5 libraw9 librsync1
>   libscim8c2a min12xxw pnm2ppa powermanagement-interface pxljr
> python-gst-1.0 python-pylibacl python-pyxattr qt4-tqt-theme-engine rdesktop
> rdiff-backup scim-bridge-client-qt scim-im-agent scim-modules-socket screen
> speedcrunch splix strigi-daemon synaptic-trinity tqca-tls ttf-arabeyes
> ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming ttf-lao ttf-malayalam-fonts ttf-thai-tlwg
> ttf-unfonts-core Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>
> oh, and it also deleted xorg, though i quickly reinstalled that.
>
> i'm hoping to make everyone play nice together, but before i do that i hope
> to back out of whatever i've gotten myself into, lest the machine surprise
> me at next reboot.
>
> help!!
>
> dep
>
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Yeah, you want to reinstall all that stuff, unless you don't really need some 
of it. (I have found speedcrunch to be a problem on my system, for example, 
but now I forget why.) It doesn't seem to have uninstalled 
desktop-core-trinity, but I do recognize a lot of those items as oft-used, if 
not strictly essential packages. 

There ought to be a workaround to get qt5 dependencies installed; if not, put 
in a request for Slavek or whoever to create them. I requested some packages 
(tork-trinity and kshowmail-trinity) a few years ago, and they were created 
in a few days, and have worked great ever since. 

Also, I would like to switch to ProtonMail or something similar, but have had 
problems registering for an account. As I recall, it kept rejecting my 
connection; also, I can't remember if they offer free accounts, or only paid 
accounts. So I am interested to hear your progress in getting ProtonMail to 
work with something like Kmail or Claws. 

Bill