On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:07:26PM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > Hi, > > I am building a Debian 3.0 system via dialup. The manpage for tasksel > states that you can issue the command 'tasksel install <taskname>'. I > looked in the task description file on my system and one of the tasks > is basic-desktop which is what I want to do but basic-desktop does not > appear on the tasksel selection menu. I tried 'tasksel install > basic-desktop' but got the tasksel selection menu. > > I don't want to choose the desktop option because I don't want KDE or > Gnome. Did I misunderstand the manpage? > > Thanks, > Larry I think you may want x-window-system. $ apt-cache showpkg x-window-system Package: x-window-system Versions: 4.1.0-16(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) Reverse Depends: Dependencies: 4.1.0-16 - x-window-system-core (0 (null)) lbxproxy (0 (null)) proxymngr (0 (null)) twm (0 (null)) xdm (0 (null)) xfs (0 (null)) xfwp (0 (null)) xnest (0 (null)) xprt (0 (null)) xspecs (0 (null)) xterm (0 (null)) xvfb (0 (null)) Provides: 4.1.0-16 - Reverse Provides: -- Jerome
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