On Tue, 30 May 2023, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
I don't even know what you're talking about. If I knew what your message
meant and how to do it, I'd gladly do it, but I don't understand your
message, someone here must.
In Debian, there is a package called tasksel. The program that it
provides runs as part of the installation, but you can also presumably run
it at any time.
This is the part of the installation where you can choose categories of
software which wil be installed. This is the part where I said that you
can install a text only ssytem but not installing any of the desktop
environments.
If I run tasksel on my installed system, I get the following screen:
Software selection
------------------
You can choose to install one or more of the following predefined
collections of software.
1. Debian desktop environment 4. ... GNOME Flashback 7. ... MATE 10.
web server
2. ... GNOME 5. ... KDE Plasma 8. ... LXDE 11.
SSH server
3. ... Xfce 6. ... Cinnamon 9. ... LXQt 12.
laptop
(Enter the items or ranges you want to select, separated by spaces.)
Choose software to install:
This has changed a bit over time. You can see in the above list that
options 1 through 9 are all GUI-related, with Web Server, SSH Server and
Laptop as the remaining ptions. I know in the past there were things like
print server.
Anyway, Samuel is suggesting reporting a bug against the tasksel package,
requesting that a "textual desktop" option be added and listing which
packages that this option should install.
You can use reportbug to do this.
I've not used reportbug in some time so I can't really speak to using it,
but it should be installed and I'm guessing there's documentation for it.
HTH,
Geoff.