On Saturday 15 September 2012 10:26:06 Lisi wrote: > Hello all :-) > > I am doing a fresh install of Trinity, on a fresh install of Debian > Squeeze, which so far has no GUI installed. > > After I issue: > aptitude install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity > > I get a list of 165 recommends and the question: do you accept this > solution? > > Well, I think that there are 165, but the first that I can currently see is > number 147. Having dismally failed to find a way to see what I am being > asked to agree to, I decided to accept all recommends, which might at least > reduce the number of things on the screen and let me see what else, if > anything, aptitude is telling me. (Oh, I do miss konsole!) > > So I did: > aptitude -r install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity > > That made no difference at all. Still a problem, still 165 recommends (as > far as I can see), still: do you accept this solution? And I still don't > know what "solution" it is recommending. It might be suggesting _removing_ > 165 packages. > > So, in case I had gone bonkers and got the order wrong I tried: > aptitude install -r desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity > > Same result. :-( > > I am fresh out of ideas. I have had enough physical problems building this > computer, without software problems as well. :-( Seeing this on the list gave me an idea I ought to have thought of sooner: try apt-get. I am in the process of doing so. It has listed teh [problems mor ecomprehensibly, saying what dpends on what and what isn't gouing to be installed. so I am now trying to install those packages manually. As I say, this is a fresh install. If necessary I wipe the drives and start again. Lisi