On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
1) Install a standard system (say from netboot, netinst, or because you
only have regular CD #1 not the xfce CD #1)
You can also very easily install alternative desktop environments using
the buisinesscard or netinst CDs, or DVDs. See the
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:34:53 +0100
Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org wrote:
On mar, 2009-01-06 at 20:01 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
It occurs to me the reason you are confused is that when I 'Standard
System' you are thinking I mean 'typical system' when in fact I mean
that I
On jeu, 2009-01-08 at 00:21 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
Ah! Aptitude also has the ability to select tasks. One of the
categories in the defaults displays is 'Tasks' and under that there
are
things like 'End User' and 'Localisation'. For XFCE you open 'End
User' and the highlight 'Xfce
On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:36:09 +0100
Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org wrote:
So it's not that hard. Manually replacing foomatic-gui by
system-config-printer gives:
xfce:~# apt-get --no-install-recommends remove --purge foomatic-gui
system-config-printer+
Reading package lists... Done
Actually, regarding documentation for installing xfce d-i post-install,
if we had an appropriate aptitude or apt-get line for copy-and-paste,
that would make sense.
The problem I see is that the appropriate line depends on the language
selection (e.g. a welsh desktop should probably have
On mar, 2009-01-06 at 16:06 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
Perhaps it's only when one tries to install xfce after doing a
standard
install and not when using an xfce cd (that's when it showed up for
me). So probably tasksel is fine, the problem is that if you apt-get
or aptitude|select
On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:48:37 +0100
Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org wrote:
On mar, 2009-01-06 at 16:06 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
Perhaps it's only when one tries to install xfce after doing a
standard
install and not when using an xfce cd (that's when it showed up for
me). So
On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:48:37 +0100
Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org wrote:
Anyway, I'm *really* lost about where we are, what the problem really
is, and what exactly we are wanting to do to solve it.
It occurs to me the reason you are confused is that when I 'Standard
System' you are
On mar, 2009-01-06 at 20:01 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
It occurs to me the reason you are confused is that when I 'Standard
System' you are thinking I mean 'typical system' when in fact I mean
that I select the option 'Standard System' on the tasksel menu.
No I'm confused because you
On lun, 2009-01-05 at 13:31 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 05 January 2009, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
Reason is that tasksel makes use of the Task: fields in the Packages
file, not the task files included in tasksel itself (which,
simplified, are only used to update the Packages file).
On lun, 2009-01-05 at 12:50 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
Ok it seems that adding xfce4-session before gdm in the list enables
apt-get and aptitude to satisfy the dependency on x-session-manager.
Unfortunately this cannot be fixed in tasksel this way. The order in which
packages are actually
On Monday 05 January 2009, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
Reason is that tasksel makes use of the Task: fields in the Packages
file, not the task files included in tasksel itself (which,
simplified, are only used to update the Packages file).
Ha, crap. And I guess the Task: order isn't reliable?
severity 506406 minor
thanks
On Monday 05 January 2009, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
Well, testing the desktop task not really, especially if it uses
Packages files. But we can test installing xdm on top of xfce4.
That's not sufficient. What would need to be tested is installing xdm and
xfce at
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:58:28PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
severity 506406 minor
thanks
On Monday 05 January 2009, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
Well, testing the desktop task not really, especially if it uses
Packages files. But we can test installing xdm on top of xfce4.
That's not
Ok it seems that adding xfce4-session before gdm in the list enables
apt-get and aptitude to satisfy the dependency on x-session-manager.
Unfortunately this cannot be fixed in tasksel this way. The order in which
packages are actually installed is not determined by the order in which
they are
On Monday 05 January 2009, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
It should at one point run:
tasksel install xfce-desktop
But according to tasksel --test install xfce-desktop, in fact it should
run:
aptitude -q --without-recommends -o APT::Install-Recommends=no -y \
install desktop gnome-desktop
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:31:59 +0100
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote:
Would replacing gdm by xdm solve the problem (see #510422)?
Well, I guess so.
Could you (or someone else from the desktop teams) test this?
I'm just the user who reported the bug (though I hope at some point to
On lun, 2009-01-05 at 22:55 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:31:59 +0100
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote:
Would replacing gdm by xdm solve the problem (see #510422)?
Well, I guess so.
Could you (or someone else from the desktop teams) test this?
I'm
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:27:20AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
3) apt-get install $(cat packages.lst)
4) notice that gnome-session, nautilus, etc are installed.
Please provide packages.lst.
I think it may be related to the following dependency chain:
libexo-0.3-0 Depends: libnotify1
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:24:41 +0100
Yves-Alexis Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On mar, 2008-11-25 at 02:15 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:45:47 +0100
Yves-Alexis Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On ven, 2008-11-21 at 19:23 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
It was
On mar, 2008-11-25 at 19:15 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
Install #1
--
1) Install a standard system
2) sudo aptitude
3) Select line labelled 'Xfce desktop environment' (i.e. press '+'
will
that line is highlighted)
4) Type 'g'
5) browse the list of packages; it will show gnome
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:45:47 +0100
Yves-Alexis Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On ven, 2008-11-21 at 19:23 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
It was suggested to me by Frans Pop that I should let you xfce folks
know since you're most likely to be motivated to solve it.
Opening an important
On mar, 2008-11-25 at 02:15 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:45:47 +0100
Yves-Alexis Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On ven, 2008-11-21 at 19:23 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
It was suggested to me by Frans Pop that I should let you xfce folks
know since you're
On ven, 2008-11-21 at 19:23 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
It was suggested to me by Frans Pop that I should let you xfce folks
know since you're most likely to be motivated to solve it.
Opening an important bug on our metapackage is not really the best way
to do that. We have a mailing list,
Package: xfce4
Version: 4.4.2.1
Severity: important
Aptitude and apt both pull in gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon,
nautilus, and a bunch of other gnome stuff that is irrelevant / unwanted for
xfce (and which defaults the purpose of a small DE) because of a (known) bug in
apt and
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 03:33:27AM -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
Package: xfce4
Version: 4.4.2.1
Severity: important
Aptitude and apt both pull in gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon,
nautilus, and a bunch of other gnome stuff that is irrelevant /
unwanted for xfce (and which
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