Re: tasksel / "X Window System" / Woody
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:49, Clarke Brunt wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I've done my first ever Debian installation - Woody 3.0r2 - but I have
> reasonable experience of GNU/Lnux systems, and have worked on pre-installed
> Debian systems before.
>
> During installation, I thought I'd add X-windows and a desktop environment.
> The installation procedure used 'tasksel' (and all docs I could find
> recommended using this rather than diving into dselect). The relevant task
> to install appeared to be "End-user / desktop environment". I found that
> this gave me both KDE and Gnome, but _no X server_! In the end, I used
> dselect to add appropriate things after installation, and eventually got it
> going - found in necessary to say "No" to the 'use kernel frame buffer'
> question, otherwise X-server for 'nv' (NVidia) wouldn't start - lucky to
> find this tip on a web page.
>
> I can't guarantee that there wasn't another task which I should have
> installed as well, indeed I might repeat this whole installation from
> scratch now I've gained a better idea of the answers to the questions, and a
> suitable partitioning scheme, but what I seem to see now is:
>
> /usr/share/tasksel/debian_tasks.desc contains a task "End-user / X Window
> System", with task name "basic-desktop". Its description says it will
> install X-server etc.
>
> /var/lib/dpkg/available (at least after updating with dselect using apt-get
> method) does not contain any packages which claim to be part of task
> "basic-desktop", to tasksel does not even display this task on its menu.
>
> I'm not sure what was in 'available' during installation (would have to
> repeat the installation), but I believe that my sources.list for apt-get is
> set appropriately - 'available' contains plenty packages with e.g. "Task:
> desktop" but none with "Task: basic-desktop".
>
> So how was a beginner such as myself supposed to get the X-server installed,
> when the recommended use of 'tasksel' during installation didn't offer
> anything appropriate, and even managed the rather silly option of installing
> KDE and Gnome with no X-server?
I am new to Debian and to Linux too. I've seen this to happen when you
choose to run the updates from debian security site. It will just wipe
out the x-window option from tasksel.
Any other input on this issue is welcome.
Thanks
Hector
>
> I can see from various mailing-list archives that at some point 'tasksel'
> changed from including the contents of each task itself, to expecting
> "Task:..." lines in the packages. Is this where the contents of
> 'basic-desktop' went missing?
>
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> Clarke Brunt
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