Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Beta - Cannot Install Gnome Desktop

2020-01-20 Thread davidpgil
UPDATE: Gnome desktop now seems installable if one installs using aptitude. sudo aptitude install gnome-core Aptitude will take care of any dependency issues and you may be asked to select your display manager -- I chose lightdm. Then, log out and youll see that there will be an option on

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Beta - Cannot Install Gnome Desktop

2020-01-15 Thread davidpgil
So your saying we just need to make the trisquel-wallpapers control file look like this? Source: trisquel-wallpapers Section: trisquel Priority: optional Maintainer: Rubén Rodríguez Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper Standards-Version: 3.5.9.0 Package: trisquel-wallpapers Architecture: all

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Beta - Cannot Install Gnome Desktop

2020-01-05 Thread Caleb Herbert
On 01/05/2020 06:01 PM, ma...@masonhock.com wrote: > However, other packages may depend on > ubuntu-wallpapers too, in which case it would be more efficient to edit > trisquel-wallpaper's control file[2] and add "Provides: > ubuntu-wallpapers". This would make it so that any package which depend

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Beta - Cannot Install Gnome Desktop

2020-01-05 Thread mason
> Not sure what you mean by "control file". Dependencies are specified in `debian/control` in a "Depends:" block. Removing this line[1] or changing it to "trisquel-wallpapers" would make gnome-shell installable. However, other packages may depend on ubuntu-wallpapers too, in which case it would

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Beta - Cannot Install Gnome Desktop

2020-01-05 Thread mason
> gnome-shell : Depends: ubuntu-wallpapers but it is not installable ubuntu-wallpapers isn't in the repo. It's one of the packages we purge.[1] We need to either (a) modify gnome-shell's control file to remove the dependency on ubuntu-wallpapers, (b) make it depend on trisquel-wallpapers

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Beta - Cannot Install Gnome Desktop

2020-01-05 Thread davidpgil
> I just recently tried installing Gnome desktop in Trisquel 9 but I am > unable to. There seems to be a dependecy issue. I did not take note of > the missing dependencies (sorry). You may be able see in /var/log/apt/history.log what they were, or just reattempt installation. >> I went on

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Beta - Cannot Install Gnome Desktop

2020-01-05 Thread mason
> I just recently tried installing Gnome desktop in Trisquel 9 but I am > unable to. There seems to be a dependecy issue. I did not take note of > the missing dependencies (sorry). You may be able see in /var/log/apt/history.log what they were, or just reattempt installation. >"sudo apt install

[Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Beta - Cannot Install Gnome Desktop

2020-01-05 Thread davidpgil
I just recently tried installing Gnome desktop in Trisquel 9 but I am unable to. There seems to be a dependecy issue. I did not take note of the missing dependencies (sorry). However, this could be easy enough to test by doing "sudo apt install gnome" and take note that it won't be able to