On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 01:22:03PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 01.12.2017 um 13:15 schrieb Arturo Borrero Gonzalez: > > On 1 December 2017 at 12:23, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote: > >> Am 01.12.2017 um 07:34 schrieb Paul Wise: > >>> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > > >>>> * no support for RW on NTFS drives, only RO. This wasn't fixed even by > >>>> installing ntfs-3g [0]. > >>>> I didn't have the time to investigate the NTFS issue myself, sorry :-( > >>> > >>> Sounds like you need to get him to file a bug against ntfs-3g and > >>> against whichever meta-package or other component should be installing > >>> ntfs-3g. For the latter, perhaps gnome-software/PackageKit needs some > >>> sort of filesystem detector that installs relevant packages. I was in > >>> the same position recently with the Apple HFS+ filesystem. > >>> > >> > >> udisks2 already recommends ntfs-3g. Most major desktops should use and > >> install udisks2. Which desktop environment did your user install and did > >> he maybe choose to not install recommends? > >> > >> > > > > I don't really know, I would say gnome. > > A default gnome desktop installation will pull in ntfs-3g (you can try > by running apt install task-gnome-desktop in a chroot). > If the user had to manually install ntfs-3g, something went wrong. He mentioned that wifi needed a non-free firmware package after the install. I would say the installation was done offline, in which case Recommends: will be happily skipped if the package is not available in the install media. Now, I have no idea whether ntfs-3g is on CD/DVD 1 or not. It's been a while since I installed a system with somethign other than a netinstall media.
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