Bug#617363: install option desktop=gnome currently broken

[Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>]

Hi,

not sure if this is still relevant...

On Dienstag, 8. März 2011, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> What I have done is:
> 
>   o I installed a Tjener (+ workstation role) with desktop=gnome
>   o I found a system without GDM installed, but with KDM installed, but KDM
> did not start
>   o I then edited apt's sources.list (see above) as I would do on any
> Debian system (get rid of the CD, install from web)
>   o then I ran ,,apt-get install education-desktop-gnome''

did you maybe miss the "apt-get update" step after editing sources.list?
 
"apt-get upgrade" first could also be helpful :)

> So there were basically two problems:
>    o desktop=gnome on install failed

let's ignore this.

>    o the packages on the Debian Edu CD are newer than packages in the
> archives that the default source.list file of Skolelinux contains.

hm. i guess thats because the CD installs packages from squeeze-test but then 
only points to squeeze. that shouldnt happen.


cheers,
	Holger