On 18 September 2012 07:57, leee <leee@...> wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2012 17:10:53 Lisi wrote: >> I started again. I installed a fairly basic Squeeze system, I then >> installed LXDE (without a hitch), then desktop-base-trinity, also without a >> hitch. I used only the official repository. >> >> I now had a working system with a terminal in which I could scroll back, >> and if I wanted copy in order to paste. >> >> Next I tried to install kde-trinity. A long error message ensued. But >> this time I could scroll back to see the whole message. > > Just an observation: If you're in a situation where you can only work via the > console and can't scroll back to see errors that have scrolled off-screen > then either pipe the command through a pager, like less, or re-direct std for example: echo "lol" | less echo "lol > output_file > output & std err to a file. You can then use less or an editor, like nano, > or even copy it to another system to view the entire output and find out what > happened. > > I held off from commenting earlier because I got bounced from trinity-users > again (this only became apparent after I'd noticed that I hadn't received any > trinity-users posting for about a month or so). Anyway, as a result I missed > the start of this thread and I didn't realise that you hadn't actually been > able to see the relevant messages. > > LeeE