Ticket #144 (closed defect: fixed)
debathena-workstation can be installed without ubuntu-desktop
| Reported by: | geofft | Owned by: | broder |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | proposed |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description
If you install debathena-workstation from the PXE installer, and forget to select "Ubuntu desktop" in the tasksel list, then you get GDM because of debathena-gdm-config et al., and you get what appears to be a working graphical login, but you're missing stuff like ubuntu-artwork, fast-user-switch-applet, openoffice.org, xterm, etc.
The same bug probably exists if you install a nongraphical system and then install debathena-workstation, but this seems less likely.
We can fix this on Ubuntu by Recommending ubuntu-desktop | kubuntu-desktop | whateverelsebuntu-desktop. On Debian, those packages don't exist, so it will silently ignore the recommendation.
However, on Debian, the same bug probably exists, but "desktop" is merely a tasksel, not a metapackage. (On Ubuntu it's both.) Fixing this via a preinst that invokes tasksel is Evil; is there a better way to deal?
FWIW, -cluster currently recommends ubuntu-desktop; it seems reasonable to move this into workstation, even more so to move it into -managed (i.e. the new -workstation)