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[Debathena] #144: debathena-workstation can be installed without
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:45:12 -0000
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#144: debathena-workstation can be installed without ubuntu-desktop-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------
Reporter: geofft | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Keywords:
-------------------+-------------------------------------------------------- If you install debathena-workstation from the PXE installer, and forget to
select "Ubuntu desktop" in the tasksel list, then you get GDM because of
debathena-gdm-config et al., and you get what appears to be a working
graphical login, but you're missing stuff like ubuntu-artwork, fast-user-
switch-applet, openoffice.org, xterm, etc.
The same bug probably exists if you install a nongraphical system and then
install debathena-workstation, but this seems less likely.
We can fix this on Ubuntu by Recommending ubuntu-desktop | kubuntu-desktop
| whateverelsebuntu-desktop. On Debian, those packages don't exist, so it
will silently ignore the recommendation.
However, on Debian, the same bug probably exists, but "desktop" is merely
a tasksel, not a metapackage. (On Ubuntu it's both.) Fixing this via a
preinst that invokes tasksel is Evil; is there a better way to deal?
-- Ticket URL: <http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/144>Debathena <http://debathena.mit.edu/>MIT Debian-Athena Project
