Installation Instructions

This page will guide you through the installation of Trinity on our officially supported Linux distributions.

It is strongly recommended that you subscribe to the low traffic trinity-announce mailing list so that you can receive notifications of scheduled upgrades. Also, a Kubuntu-specific list is available if you are interested in Kubuntu related topics.

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Ubuntu Trinity Repository Installation Instructions

1. Add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

For Maverick

deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu maverick main
deb-src http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu maverick main
deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu maverick main
deb-src http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu maverick main

For Lucid

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kde3-maintainers/ppa/ubuntu lucid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kde3-maintainers/ppa/ubuntu lucid main

For Karmic

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kde3-maintainers/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kde3-maintainers/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

For Jaunty

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kde3-maintainers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kde3-maintainers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kde3-maintainers/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kde3-maintainers/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

2. Add the GPG signing key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net --recv-keys 2B8638D0

3. Install Trinity:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt get install kubuntu-default-settings-kde3 kubuntu-desktop-kde3

Live CD Images for Kubuntu with Trinity preinstalled are available here

Slackware Installation Instructions

There are Binary packages for Slackware 12.2 available here. Download manually or configure your package manager accordingly. Additional information, build instructions, and documentation are available at: http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/sdeg/kde_35x.htm

Debian Trinity Repository Installation Instructions

1. Add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

For Lenny

deb http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/trinity/debian lenny main
deb-src http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/trinity/debian lenny main
deb http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/trinity-builddeps/debian lenny main
deb-src http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/trinity-builddeps/debian lenny main

Please visit this page for additional instructions required for Debian Lenny

For Squeeze

deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/debian squeeze main
deb-src http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/debian squeeze main
deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/debian squeeze main
deb-src http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/debian squeeze main

2. Add the GPG signing key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net --recv-keys 2B8638D0

3. Install KDE 3.5:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity