On Saturday 12 November 2011 11:41:49 pm Laurent Dard wrote:
> To all Debian users who are experimenting problems to install Trinity.
>
> There was a bug with Qt3 versioning, in the Debian version of Trinity
> 3.5.13. (http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=583)
>
> If the following command:
>   dpkg -l|grep 3:3.3.8-d-0ubuntu0
> is listing some packages, you'll have to force a "downgrade" from version
> "3:3.3.8-d-0ubuntu0+sr73+pr181~squeeze" to version
> "3:3.3.8d-0ubuntu0+sr73+pr181~squeeze".
>
> Here is a script to do the job:
>
> OLDVERSION=3:3.3.8-d-0ubuntu0+sr73+pr181~squeeze
> NEWVERSION=3:3.3.8d-0ubuntu0+sr73+pr181~squeeze
> for f in `dpkg -l | grep $OLDVERSION | awk '{print $2}'` ; do
>   apt-get install $f=$NEWVERSION
> done

Thanks for the script, not something I would figure out myself.

I have used it successfully on three 3.5..13 machines here, though they were 
running okay.

I have seen the 'kdeinit failed message' on a 3.5.12 box that I tried, and failed, 
to upgrade to 3.5.13. 
-- 
Peace,

Greg