What Metapackages does a standard Xubuntu Install have ?

[Worth, Kevin]

Most likely you want to do something like

tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-standard, xubuntu-desktop

In your preseed. ubuntu-standard includes things like wget, ftp, tcpdump, etc- things that aren't necessary for a minimal system, but are certainly nice to have.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/ubuntu-standard

The other big one is ubuntu-minimal, but I think that is nearly guaranteed to be installed.

-Kevin


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From: ubuntu-installer-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-installer-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jim Wiggins
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:19 AM
To: Udit Manektala
Cc: ubuntu-installer at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: What Metapackages does a standard Xubuntu Install have ?

wget is not a standard package all the time.  I've had to apt-get it on some freshly installed *buntu systems.  Telnet, too.  However, cron, at, and ed are more fundamental.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Udit Manektala <umanekta at thoughtworks.com> wrote:
>
> We're trying to build an installer that is similar to a xubuntu
> installer using the CDImage scripts and ran into a problem with
> missing packages. I was under the impression that the xubuntu-desktop
> metapackage is solely responsible for installing all packages needed
> to install the Xubuntu system. And so we built an installer with the
> default metapackge selected in the preseed, being xubuntu-desktop. The
> resulting system, though, was missing some crucial packages such as
> cron, at, ed , telnet , wget etc. I grep for these packages in the
> dependency lists of the xubuntu-desktop metapackage but did not find
> them anywhere. This makes me believe that a standard xubuntu
> installation has more contributing to it than just this 1 metapackage.
> Is that a correct assumption and if yes, then what other metapackages
> do I need to install apart from xubuntu-desktop, to get a standard xubuntu-install ?
>
> Thanks
> Udit
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