Lubuntu Desktop

Cyber Penguin cyberpenguin1979 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 11:17:01 UTC 2012


Hi, regarding the wiki page
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstall :

Could somebody (with more knowledge than I) please add a section explaining
the difference between lubuntu-desktop and lubuntu-core?

Thanks in advance!

CP


On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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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