What Metapackages does a standard Xubuntu Install have ?

[Jeff Wishnie]

Xubuntu 8.04.1, standard install, includes Wget and Telnet

We may, in fact, want to _remove_ telnet, though it has some utility  
for debugging.

- Jeff


On Aug 21, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Jim Wiggins wrote:

> 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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