> I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); > and then I run "tasksel". I selected "X11"; and then choose > "kdm" out of "xdm", "gdm", and "kdm". > > Apparently, it installs everything, unfortunately it does not
A suggestion. It is possible to run 'tasksel -t' and select what you want, then finish. The -t is test mode and won't actually run anything. But it will print the apt-get line that it would have installed without the -t option. I find that useful. Use that output as a starting point hint and run apt-get yourself manually. Avoid installing what you don't want. In this way I can install 'automake1.5' instead of the older 'automake' and so forth. For my own personal situation I plan to create my own metapackage that will pull these things in to make this simpler for me. Right now I just install a long list of 'good stuff'. But I am installing Debian almost regularly on different machines these days and a meta package customized for my installation so as to avoid tasksel would be useful. Sorry I can't help with the rest of your question. But hopefully this is useful by itself. Bob
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