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RE: [trinity-users] Nightly Builds is killin' me! Help?

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:23:56 -0600
>> <stuck in OWA hell so doing this manually!>
>> On Wednesday 23 November 2011 at some time Kristopher wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Since it's not close enough to a 3.5.14 release, it may or may not
>>> work.
>>
>>> Purge ALL of the TDE packages (don't just remove them); this is done
>>> with "apt-get remove (somepackage) --purge". That'll get rid of all of
>>> the old config files that could interfere.
>>
>>> Next, make sure that the directory /opt/trinity/ is completely removed.
>>
>>> Finally, install the nightly build.
>>
>>
>> Wellll ...  There are only two tde pkgs installed, and one looks like
>> it's
>> not completely there:
>>
>> ii  tde-ubuntu-integration                  0.1-0
>>             TDE Ubuntu Integration
>> iU  tdebase-trinity
>> 4:3.5.14-0ubuntu0+r407+pr8~natty           base components from the
>> official KDE release
>>
>>
>> When I try to remove them, I get the same dependency messages.
>>
>>
>> Ugh.
>>
>> Peter
>
> Just a reminder: the nightly builds are NOT for public consumption.  The
> migration to GIT is nowhere near complete, so about 1/3 of the packages
> are available at this point.  They are NOT binary compatible with 3.5.13,
> and the packaging files for Ubuntu/Debian do not yet allow for a smooth
> upgrade.  The packages in the nightly builds PPA are pre-alpha quality
> software at the moment!
>
> Tim
>
>

Also, you should be using 3.5.13 (released a few weeks ago), which is
available for Ubuntu Lucid through Oneiric.  See the home page for
installation instructions. :-)

Tim