Bug#511287: marked as done (debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #511287,
regarding debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome
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Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
debian-installer for Lenny should have a desktop selector if the "Desktop" task is chosen, or separate tasks for at least KDE and Gnome, and better if for XFCE as well.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:44:43AM +0100, Noel David Torres Ta??o wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> debian-installer for Lenny should have a desktop selector if the "Desktop" task is chosen, or separate tasks for at least KDE and Gnome, and better if for XFCE as well.
Offering every combination of preference under the sun by default has
been deemed newbie hostile.
Given that you're interested in installing XFCE, I'm guessing you're
not a newbie. That being the case, one might be forgiven for assuming
that searching for something like:
debian-installer xfce
via google would be something that might be reasonable to expect.
If you do that, you'll find that the first page you come to is:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianXFCE
which explains that you just have to add:
desktop=xfce
to the kernel command line to change that default.
If you were wanting to customise some media to enable that to be the
default, this allows you to edit the syslinux.cfg (or isolinux.cfg or
whatever) file adding the "desktop=xfce" string to all the kernel command
lines and the job is done -- no need to rebuild the main CD image.
If you want a route to getting a prompt about this, another way of getting
there would be to do an expert install, which would mean that the debconf
minimum question priority would be dropped to "low" and you'd be prompted
for the default desktop -- unfortunately this would also mean that you're
prompted for about a thousand other things that you probably don't care
about at all, so would be a tiresome way of getting what you want.
Given that the feature is already there I'm closing this bug -- hope that's OK.
Cheers, Phil.
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