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Bug#784279: installation-reports: Software installation fails when choosing gnome desktop



On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 22:57 +0200, cody wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> Installation of Debian 8.0
> Choosing Gnome Desktop
> Software installation fails.
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> Switched with ALT-F4 to the messages. Saw the following:
> "Errors where encountered while processing: gnome
> sub-process returned an error code (1)
> tasksel: apt-get failed (100)
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome:
> gnome depends on goobox | sound-juicer; however:
> Package goobox is not installed
> Package sound-juicer is not installed
> dpkg: error processing package gnome (--configure):
> dependency problem - leaving unconfiguared."
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> The menu comes back were one can choose software installation.
[...]
> Initial boot:           [O]
> Detect network card:    [O]
> Configure network:      [ ] - not connected, so he could not succeed
[...]

I think this is expected behaviour as GNOME no longer fits entirely on
CD#1.  (I think the same is true for KDE.)

We should probably document in the installation guide and/or release
notes that these desktops need either multiple CDs (how many?) or
network access.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.

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