On 14/11/11 11:08, Stefan Endrullis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a way to install the Trinity Desktop Environment without installing nearly all KDE3 programs such as digikam, ...?
> The proposed package kubuntu-desktop-trinity has IMO quite a lot dependencies.
> Is there a certain package which only provides the DE?  So that Trinity can be started from kdm or gdm?
>
> Regards,
> Stefan

Yes, although no official documentation mentions it (would be great to 
have an official "tde-lite" meta)

I run Squeeze but a similar method *should* work for Ubuntu, it uses 
apt. No guarantees it will work for you though!

I make a text list of the packages I actually want, e.g tdelist, then:

(apt-get update and install keyring first)

for i in $( cat path/to/tdelist ); do apt-get install $i; done

The list I use is posted at (will expire in 72 hours): 
http://paste.debian.net/145337/

You could edit that and use it.

I always do anything like that with X closed.

Regards,
David