Deepin Desktop Environment

[spanspek]

Got it working!


Here's how :

1. Started with MX-19.2_September_x64.iso - turned on systemd ... viewtopic.php?f=104&t=57536
2. Removed XFCE with these instructions ... https://mxlinux.org/wiki/xfce/how-to-co ... move-xfce/
3. sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 425956BB3E31DF51
4. added this repo deb https://mirror.deepines.com/testing/deepin-20-beta/ apricot main contrib non-free (Spanish repo, much faster) ... it says beta but is not!
5. sudo apt update
6. sudo apt install dde
7. voilà!

[dreamofdestinyua]

Sorry, the Deepin version has long been stable. Does anyone have a real experience of how to make him work?

[spanspek]

https://community-packages.deepin.com/deepin/ apricot main contrib non-free ...

If you don't want to use the spanish repo because it "says" beta

[dreamofdestinyua]

Would you be kind enough to give the command to connect this repository?

[spanspek]

Hi there ...

Thanks for the question! Adding repositories can be done in various ways.

On the command line this might work ...

sudo add-apt-repository "https://community-packages.deepin.com/deepin/ apricot main contrib non-free"

I use synaptic and enter the values there!

[tony37]

(warning: completely unsupported)

'add-apt-repository' also adds a buster repo, better is this:

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echo "deb https://community-packages.deepin.com/deepin/ apricot main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deepin.list

and then run 'MX Fix GPG keys'.
Works for me in MX KDE, but when it's activated I see it wants to do 462 updates without me installing anything. So if you use this, you're not really using MX Linux anymore.
To remove repo:

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sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deepin.list

[dreamofdestinyua]

Thank you all, I will try!

[spanspek]

"So if you use this, you're not really using MX Linux anymore."

I agree. But still using linux, right? mx as base .... many mx tools doesn't work .... but some important ones do!

DDE works on debian 10 proper (buster) - I've tested it on some other distros (q4os works well - not perfect) but I hope that the mx community can help make DDE a viable choice of desktop environment for future users!