Woody: TaskSel - XWindows; startx fails
When installing woody, after getting to the tasksel screen, I noticed
that choosing "XWindowServer" option by itself did not resolve enough
dependencies to be able to run the server. I also tried apt-get install
kdm, suspecting that I just needed to choose a window manager, however,
kdm wouldn't resolve either.
My (rather blunt) solution to the problem was to choose the "desktop"
option in tasksel as well -- that appears to resolve whatever
dependencies need resolving. I know just (not) enough about
XWindowServer theory to suspect that this may be by design -- that I
need to make some sort of 'choice' about my environment that is made by
selecting the "desktop" option.
Does anyone know why this is, or if it is just specific to laptops, or
if it is just that something failed that should have worked?
I'm interested in theory. I don't have the specific error messages on
hand (to get them, I would need to do a fair amount of work) -- but I'm
learning how to compile kernels, and the process has resulting in
needing to reinstall debian woody about 6 times so far... (yes, I'm
doing things terribly wrong and I'm aware of it)... I figure
reinstallation will go faster if I don't install all of XWindowsServer
and the desktop each time...
Thanks!
-Jason.
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