Lubuntu Desktop

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi Chris,

please accept my apologies, I should have discussed what 12.04 needs with
you and within your team before I went opening my mouth. I know that you
guys are busily working through wiki pages.

Ooops @ Phill.

On 10 February 2012 16:34, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Julien
>
> it was your good self who told me that I needed python-software-properties
> back in the days of about 10.04 :)
>
> The minimal pages are at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall#A10.04_32_Bit
>
>
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall#A10.04_32_Bit>Oh,
> happy days... when we flew by the seat of our pants and tried to get a set
> of instructions up for each release - warts and all!
>
> As I will most likely not be here for 12,04 - I'm trying to get some feel
> of what docs need updating for the new release. The minor edits can be done
> as we go, but 12.04 needs to start having a future foot-print in for the
> day of the release.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 10 February 2012 15:25, Julien Lavergne <gilir at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>>  The "massive" diff is the add of common desktop packages, used by all
>> flavors :
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/platform.precise/view/head:/desktop-common
>>
>> Except cups (which is a recommend) I can't see anything problematic. Most
>> of them are stuff that IMO common users should not have to deal with.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Julien Lavergne
>>
>> Le 02/10/2012 04:09 PM, Chris a écrit :
>>
>> This might be a better place to start this discussion concerning the
>> ubuntu-core meta-package.
>> If we look at [1] && [2] we see a MASSIVE increase in dependencies and
>> even recommends for the first time. I don't think this it the situation we
>> want? Is this change by accident or on purpose?
>>
>> And to reply to phillw: I think the prefered situation should be "sudo
>> apt-get install lubuntu-core" "sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
>> --no-install-recommends" && "sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop" but that
>> is dependent on the results to the above question.
>>
>> [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/lubuntu-core
>> [2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/lubuntu-core
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 16:03, Julien Lavergne <gilir at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Why python-software-properties is needed ? Just using
>>> --no-install-recommends should work.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Julien Lavergne
>>>
>>> Le 02/10/2012 12:06 AM, Phill Whiteside a écrit :
>>>
>>> Hi Julien,
>>>
>>> with the removal of --no-install-recommends in 11.10 on the build, is
>>> the step for installing lubuntu-core / lubuntu-desktop for 11.10 of:
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
>>>
>>> still required?
>>>
>>> Also, I know we were discussing that *12.04* would have 3 'real'
>>> options (I do not really see the need for the other 2 possible variations).
>>> If they want to use --no-install-recommends for the lubuntu-core version
>>> will they need the python-software-properties adding to enable that option?
>>>
>>> *1) Slimmest core*
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
>>> sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends lubuntu-core
>>> sudo apt-get dist-upgradesudo apt-get autoclean
>>>
>>> *2) Standard core*
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install lubuntu-core
>>> sudo apt-get dist-upgradesudo apt-get autoclean
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *3) Standard desktop*
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
>>> sudo apt-get dist-upgradesudo apt-get autoclean
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Phill.
>>>
>>> On 9 February 2012 16:25, Michael Rawson <michaelrawson76 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Of course, as long as you have an internet connection. The following
>>>> command should install it:
>>>>
>>>> sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
>>>>
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