Re: Debian/Debian Gnome
On Sun 16 Nov 2025 at 01:19:35 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2025-11-14 14:00:26 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > How do you deselect GNOME from lenny's menu without deselecting the DE?
>
> I've checked again, and indeed, there were gnome-* packages installed.
> I thought this was not the case, probably because it wasn't intrusive
> at that time. On my new laptop, one of the early things I had to do
> was to replace pinentry-gnome3 (which does not work outside GNOME) by
> pinentry-curses and pinentry-gtk2. I had to remove other GNOME packages
> later.
>
> > > I'm also wondering whether this is sufficient for wifi connections
> > > (this is obviously a must for laptops).
> >
> > AFAICT if you install through a wifi network, the d-i will leave
> > its wifi packages (ifupdown, wpa_supplicant, etc) in place.
>
> I installed my new laptop from a USB memory stick with a netinst
> image + wifi I think. But wpasupplicant alone is not practical.
I'm not quite sure why you say wpasupplicant alone. But regardless of
that, you can supplement ifupdown/wpasupplicant or replace it in your
final installation. I typically use iwd for wifi, systemd-networkd
otherwise; the only time I've used ifupdown in several years, apart
from in the d-i, is for tethering to my mobile phone, which has the
advantage that I didn't need to edit anything that concerned the rest
of my network configuration.
> > You don't need any of the DE, servers, etc checked for that. If you
> > want Bigsy's specific choice, network-manager, then you're probably
> > going to have to install it yourself.
>
> I'm wondering whether ifupdown configuration set up at install
> time (e.g. in case of Ethernet network) could be in the way if
> the intent is to use network-manager.
If you want NM to manage an interface, comment out its
configuration in /etc/network/interfaces or mangle its
filename in /etc/network/interfaces.d/ to hide it.
(Debian naming conventions.)
Of course, by this means you can also configure different
interfaces with ifupdown, NM, and others, as mentioned above.
Cheers,
David.
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