[lubuntu-users] Tower PC, lubuntu and Qt

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:38:23 +0100, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
>Thanks. I've read both pages and need just a little bit more
>guidance...
>
>I have successfully installled Ubuntu 18.04 and ran Software Updater.
>
>In my searches, I found this suggestion:-
>sudo apt-get update
>sudo apt-get install lxqt openbox
>
>What do you think of it? Should I follow those instructions or should
>I:- sudo apt-get update
>sudo apt-get install lubuntu-qt-desktop
>
>Or do something else?  

Please reply to the mailing list.

lxqt is a hard dependency of lubuntu-qt-desktop. Take a look at the
packages, the meta-packages will install. If I would like to test and/or
use lxqt, I wouldn't install a meta-package at all.

If you want to go with a meta-package consider to start with e.g.

  sudo apt install --no-install-recommends lxqt

"no-install-recommends" ensures that e.g. firefox isn't installed,
instead of firefox, you might want to install falkon. At another time
you easily could install more packages. Note, the meta-package includes

"xfwm4
    window manager of the Xfce project 
or x-window-manager
    virtual package provided by [show 58 providing packages]"

x-window-manager is a virtual package for e.g. openbox.