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Re: [tde-devels] how to discover what package is required

From: deloptes <deloptes@...>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 22:27:21 +0100
Hi,
Wouldn't this question be more appropriate for the user list?

Jim via tde-devels wrote:

> Following the instructions at
>
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Raspbian_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Instructions
> I installed tdebase-trinity (rather than tde-trinity), mainly because of
> disk space concerns.
> 
> I then installed korganizer-trinity, which is the package of most
> immediate interest to me.
> 
> However, when I try to configure the date and time (Settings/Configure
> Date & Time ...) I am told
> WARNING: No TDE menu group with X-TDE-BaseGroup=settings found !
> Defaulting to Settings/
> 

tdebase-trinity usually pulls the whole set of packages needed to run TDE. 
AFAIK you must provide root or sudo password to configure date and time of
the PC - you most probably mean the Kalendar date and time display
settings.

what source did you use - what is mentioned in the article?

> This leaves me completely unaware of what package(s) I should install
> to make it happy.
> 

tdebase-trinity usually installs what is needed - in this case did you
install also locale packages as noted in the article?

> Q1: Can anyone tell me which packages I would want to install to be
> able to run this setting?
> 
> Q2: Can anyone tell me how I could have figured this out myself, short
> of reading all the code? �(I did look at some code, but decided
> that it was taking me down some very long chain of function calls
> with no end in sight, and I had to move on to some other work
> right now.)
> 
> Thanks very much.