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[Cyber Penguin]

That was fast, thanks.

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Geoffrey <computergeoffrey at zoho.com>wrote:

> **
>
> Added :)
> ---- Aan Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:17:01 +0100 *Cyber Penguin <
> cyberpenguin1979 at gmail.com>* schreef ----
>
> 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-upgrade sudo apt-get autoclean
>
> *2) Standard core*
>
> sudo apt-get install lubuntu-core sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get autoclean
>
>
> *3) Standard desktop*
>
> sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo 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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