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Bug#514628: Lenny RC2 did not install LXDE



On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 09 February 2009, Christoph Haas wrote:
> > Comments/Problems:
> > During boot we chose the "alternative desktop" option "LXDE". The
> > installation generally went smoothly. But in the end there was just
> > GDM but no LXDE. A "dpkg -l 'lxde*'" showed that there was no
> > lxde-like package installed. After running "aptitude install lxde"
> > everything went smoothly.
>
> I suspect you did not enable a mirror during the installation, but
> installed purely from CD. Is that correct?

Actually we chose the mirror ftp.de.debian.org after installing from the 
first CD. And the mirror showed up in the sources.list, too. I'll verify 
that in a second installation though.

> In that case it is correct that lxde did not get installed as the
> packages just aren't available.
>
> The bug is that the "alternative desktop" should not have been included
> in the isolinux menu for full CD images. I've just fixed that in the
> debian-cd code for new builds.

Thanks.

 Christoph

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