MX Linux Trinity Repository Installation Instructions

On this page you can read the instructions to install Trinity Desktop Environment on your MX Linux system.

MX Linux Summary

MX Linux uses a combination of official Debian stable and antiX repositories in addition to their own repositories for keeping components current. MX Linux releases once per year and its versions are named based upon the year (MX-18 was released December 20, 2018).

Systemd is included by default but not enabled. No official support will be provided for users who choose to run MX Linux using systemd (see MX Users Manual for additional information).

Links:
https://mxlinux.org/
https://mxlinux.org/manuals
https://forum.mxlinux.org/

Warnings / Notes

There are no official TDE packages available for MX Linux. Per MX Linux forums, TDE has been installed sporadically on MX Linux back to ~2015. Michael has been running TDE in MX-18 (since 01/19) and MX-19 (since 07/20).

MX Linux uses a sources list directory system not a singular /etc/apt/sources.list file. If you are adding TDE manually create a separate file containing the TDE repositories and place it in the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d .

# ll /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trinitydesktop.org.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 427 Jul 26 21:29 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trinitydesktop.org.list
 

You can still install TDE in your computer in one of the following ways.

Available versions and architectures

R14.0.x series

MX-19 Automagically (mostly)

We have an installation file for MX Linux 19.

Requirements:

You will need to have installed MX Linux from the MX Live USB, or any other method that results in a full MX install that includes installing the desktop Xfce.

To Install:

After the MX install, rename Media:Tde.xml to tde.pm and put it into /usr/share/mx-packageinstaller-pkglist .

# ll /usr/share/mx-packageinstaller-pkglist/tde.pm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4196 Jul 26 21:24 /usr/share/mx-packageinstaller-pkglist/tde.pm

Then from Xfce4

Menu >> MX Tools >> MX Package Installer
{Tab} Popular Applications
{Expand} Desktop Environments
{Check} Trinity Desktop Environment
{Click} Install

Logout of Xfce4 {set default window manager, etc.} Login TDE

Manually

Use official TDE packages for Debian. Modify the instructions available at this page with the below and use the corresponding Debian version as noted here.

• MX-19 - Use debian buster packages
• MX-18 - Use debian stretch packages
• MX-17 - Use debian stretch packages

Add the package manager lines as shown on the Configure the package manager section to a file and place it in the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d

Example MX-18:

root@local [/etc/apt/sources.list.d]# cat trinity-desktop-environment.list

## Trinity Desktop Environment - TDE R14.0.x
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.0.x stretch main
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.x stretch main
deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.0.x stretch main
deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.x stretch main

v3.5.13.2

There is no support for this TDE version in MX Linux.