On Saturday 15 September 2012 10:40:00 Lisi wrote:
> 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.

That just brought up a whole lot of dependencies.

I don't understand this circle.  Of course a lot of Trinity packages aren't 
there.  _No_ Trinity packages are there.  I can't install them. :-(

Lisi