Re: OFFLIST: Gnome desktop removal messed up machine

[Gunnar Gervin <dofeelok@gmail.com>]

Steve,

Thx for the tip.

I'll test Devuan a bit later;

so far it looks all doable in Debian i386 Xfce i686 pae chosen (under "Advanced" in startup) with some Gnome packages added. Cos I must work, too, with what I have now.

I am grateful a 14 year old Mac can work as good as this does; looking good, & solvable issues.

BR,

Gunnar

On Wed, 4 Aug 2021, 22:03 Steve Litt, <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:

Hi Gunnar,

Gnome depends very much on systemd, and probably vice versa. It doesn't
surprise me at all that Debian doesn't work without Gnome, or at least
without a lot of hoop-jumping.

You might want to try Devuan, which is basically Debian without
systemd, and then use a window manager or desktop environment that is
not Gnome. I think Devuan's default is XFCE.

Steve Litt



Gunnar Gervin said on Wed, 4 Aug 2021 11:11:49 +0300

>I forgot to tell:
>The machine got some crisis because I removed Gnome desktop in a some
>wrong way in root in Terminal;
># apt remove task-gnome-desktop
>
>Please advice how tide up again.
>Gunnar