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Bug#775364: marked as done (debian-installer: Fails to install GNOME and Xfce at the same time using tasksel)

Your message dated Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:18:04 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#775364: debian-installer: Fails to install GNOME and Xfce at the same time using tasksel
has caused the Debian Bug report #775364,
regarding debian-installer: Fails to install GNOME and Xfce at the same time using tasksel
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Package: debian-installer
Version: debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso
Severity: normal

I used debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso
MD5 (debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso) = e4293f3b05d7d4288d590a211e471ad4

I wanted to install both GNOME and Xfce. But that fails with the error:
 Installation step failed
An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again
from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step
is: Select and install software


I tried again with the daily built image (for 14 January 2015) and the
problem is still present.

The /var/log/syslog file contains:
[...]
Jan 14 17:16:37 pkgsel: starting tasksel
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Reading package lists...
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: 
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Building dependency tree...
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: 
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Reading state information...
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: or been moved out of Incoming.
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: 
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target:  task-gnome-desktop : Depends: gnome-core but it is not going to be installed
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target:                       Recommends: gnome but it is not going to be installed
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: E
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: : 
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: 
Jan 14 17:21:59 in-target: tasksel: apt-get failed (100)


I can install Xfce if I unselect GNOME. I guess there is a conflict
between gnome-core and task-xfce-desktop

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 23:57:48 +0100 Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> Control: notfound -1 debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso
> 
> Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org> (2015-01-14):
> > Package: debian-installer
> > Version: debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > I used debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso
> > MD5 (debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso) = e4293f3b05d7d4288d590a211e471ad4
> > 
> > I wanted to install both GNOME and Xfce. But that fails with the error:
> >  Installation step failed
> > An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again
> > from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step
> > is: Select and install software
> > 
> > 
> > I tried again with the daily built image (for 14 January 2015) and the
> > problem is still present.
> > 
> > The /var/log/syslog file contains:
> > [...]
> > Jan 14 17:16:37 pkgsel: starting tasksel
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Reading package lists...
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: 
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Building dependency tree...
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: 
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Reading state information...
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: or been moved out of Incoming.
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: 
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target:  task-gnome-desktop : Depends: gnome-core but it is not going to be installed
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target:                       Recommends: gnome but it is not going to be installed
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: E
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: : 
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> > Jan 14 17:21:58 in-target: 
> > Jan 14 17:21:59 in-target: tasksel: apt-get failed (100)
> > 
> > 
> > I can install Xfce if I unselect GNOME. I guess there is a conflict
> > between gnome-core and task-xfce-desktop
> 
> I'm not sure this makes sense to keep track of this bug report through
> the debian-installer package; maybe installation-reports… Anyway, can be
> trivially reproduced in a minimal jessie chroot with:
>   apt-get install task-xfce-desktop task-gnome-desktop
> 
> and indeed, toying with gnome-core:
>   apt-get install task-xfce-desktop gnome-core
> → gnome-core : Depends: evince (>= 3.14) but it is not going to be installed
> 
> Presumably that's some fun related to the gnome/regular vs. gtk-only
> versions of evince(-gtk).
> 
> And indeed gnome-core depends on evince (>= 3.14), while
> task-xfce-desktop recommends evince-gtk.

> It looks to me that the latter should recommend evince-gtk | evince
> instead? I'm happy to take someone else's opinion.

This has now happened.

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/task-xfce-desktop

Recommends: xfce4-goodies, xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-mixer,
xfce4-terminal, mousepad, orage, libreoffice-gtk, dbus-x11, xsane, vlc,
quodlibet, evince-gtk | evince, tango-icon-theme,
network-manager-gnome, synaptic, iceweasel, libreoffice,
libreoffice-help-en-us, mythes-en-us, hunspell-en-us, hyphen-en-us,
system-config-printer, gnome-orca

Indeed, apt no longer has a problem installing task-xfce-desktop and task-gnome-desktop together.

Closing.

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Neil Williams
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