gene heskett composed on 2022-12-06 21:03 (UTC-0500): > I'd love to be able to install TDE, which would give me back the best > email agent linux ever had, kmail-3.5 but with all its bugs fixed, but > the first TDE package I select, generates over 300 hits of dependency > hell from synaptic. All my Debians, which I don't keep count of but surely must number in excess of 50, are /originally/ installed NET, usually by loading the installation kernel and initrd using Grub, and using a kernel cmdline that includes the following options:
netcfg/confirm_static=true tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false IIRC this gives me a Debian with zero X installed, though I could be remembering wrong and getting a minimal X lacking all the well known DEs and leaving me with only IceWM and startx. Next I don't remember whether /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00InstallRecommends has been created as a consequence of those command line options, or I make it myself, as it's been a while since I needed a fresh installation, but it contains: APT::Install-Recommends "false"; Only after this is done, I follow the /optional/ instructions on: <https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Debian_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Instructions> This means after sources & GPG configuration, I do: apt install tdebase-trinity tdm-trinity konsole-trinity ksnapshot-trinity Once this completes & I reboot to TDM, it's just a matter of logging in and checking which extra packages I want that the base install didn't include, then adding them with apt or aptitude. I have a working installation with no dependency shenanigans, and no Gnome or other bloat that installing web browsers doesn't force. I think I may have opened synaptic many many moons ago in *buntu before I ever installed a Debian, but I doubt any of my Debians have synaptic installed. Only apt/apt-get/aptitude are used for software installations here. The currently booted state is: # inxi -S System: Host: gb250 Kernel: 5.19.0-2-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Trinity v: R14.0.13 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid # df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/nvme0n1p13 7.7G 4.3G 3.1G 59% / # dpkg -l | grep trinity | wc -l 45 # dpkg -l | wc -l 883 Stats are similar with my Busters and Bullseyes, most of which are online upgrades from Stretch or earlier releases. On this particular host, Buster was the virgin on a then new Gigabyte Kaby Lake motherboard with NVME. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
