On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 21:14:58 +0200, Dr. wrote in message
<201706252114.58612.dr.klepp@???>:

> Hi!
>
> Am Sonntag, 25. Juni 2017 schrieb Arnt Karlsen:
> > On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 19:23:12 +0200, Arnt wrote in message
> > <20170625192312.0e0378e8@???>:
> >
> > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 12:29:01 +0000, Gary wrote in message
> > > <CAEDMDrLwZg-GNRtN4VHbMWsr7_zZcLjQ2nQjqj_FoVKVei9KYg@???>:
> > >
> > > > Follow up on my Trinity blurb the other day:
> > > > '
> > > > Don't shoot me !
> > > > I put TDE (Trinity DE) on top of my DevJessie. Q4OS made their
> > > > TDE available for Devuan Jessie - it won't work on ASCII or
> > > > ceres. [I think they check the /etc/apt/sources.list; based on
> > > > an attempt to put it on my ASCII version]
> > >
> > > ..weird choice, since we (Devuan) do not use systemd, we should
> > > IMNTHO use the pre-systemd "For Wheezy (Debian 7.x)" lines in:
> > > https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/DebianInstall and leave the
> > > systemd Debian lines ("For Jessie (Debian 8.x)"), ("For Stretch
> > > (Debian 9.x)"), ("For Buster (Debian 10.x)") etc, alone.
> > >
> > > ..test in progress.
> >
> > ..test fails, it wants to remove a bazillion packages and
> > I don't play those kinda Debian games anymore.
> >
> > ..furthermore, "TDE" believes Devuan Jessie = Debian Jessie:
> > https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Preliminary_Stable_Builds
> > as shown in: http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb/dists/
>
> Maybe I'm missing a point, but did you install TDE on a clean Devuan,
> or did you try to go with Q4OS stuff? If you did the later, I'm not
> very surprised it failed.

..first try was with the pre-systemd "For Wheezy (Debian 7.x)" lines
in my /etc/apt/sources.list. Now trying the Jessie lines suggested
in https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/DevuanInstall


> If you tried to install TDE on Devuan jessie and you failed: that
> would really surprise me.

..it does looks promising this far... Aren't these the same as the
Debian Jessie ones????????????????????????????????????????????????

> Anyway, please post your /etc/apt/sources.list.

..messy paste:
root@d44:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# Devuan repositories
deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main contrib non-free

# /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan-stable-security.list
deb     http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie-security main contrib
non-free deb-src http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie-security main
contrib non-free

# /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan-stable-updates.list
deb     http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie-updates main
contrib non-free deb-src http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged
jessie-updates main contrib non-free

# /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan-stable-proposed-updates.list
deb     http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie-proposed-updates
main contrib non-free deb-src http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged
jessie-proposed-updates main contrib non-free

# /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan-stable-backports.list
deb     http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie-backports main
contrib non-free deb-src http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged
jessie-backports main contrib non-free

# /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan-experimental.list
# 
deb     http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/devuan experimental main contrib
non-free # 
deb-src http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/devuan experimental main contrib
non-free

# https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/DevuanInstall
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian
jessie main deb-src
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian
jessie main deb
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/debian
jessie main deb-src
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/debian
jessie main

>
> Nik
>
>


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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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