Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Ucclia alpha 1

[kpb]

On 2015-01-12 19:00, Marcus Moeller wrote:
> Am 11.01.2015 um 22:44 schrieb Sam Geeraerts:
> > Op Sun, 11 Jan 2015 09:14:11 +0100
> > schreef Marcus Moeller <address@hidden>:
> >
> > > Great, but as Iceweasel is missing, installation should still fail?
> >
> > Iceweasel is only a soft dependency of the libreoffice binary 
> > package,
> > so you should be able to install without the browser. Or install the
> > individual components (libreoffice-writer etc.), which have no 
> > relation
> > with the browser.
>
> Tasksel still fails: task-gnome-desktop Depends: gnome-core which is
> not going to be installed
>
> Greets
> Marcus

Hello Marcus and all

I 'got around' the tasksel problem by following a suggestion of Sam's 
(see mailing list archives around early Dec) so that I could actually 
try out the desktop and some applications.

The installation on a Thinkpad laptop with ath5 based wifi went like 
this...

* Boot from the mini.iso and enable networking (I used wifi)

* When you reach the tasksel stage, unselect the Desktop task, install 
the other three tasks

* Reboot into a command line on the installed system

* Become root and add lines to /etc/network/interfaces to allow either 
a wired or wireless connection (see Debian Networking wiki page for 
instructions)

* (Become root if not already) and apt-get install 
network-manager-gnome gnome-shell gdm3 epiphany-browser to get a basic 
desktop with Web browser

* Remove or comment out the temporary lines that you added in 
/etc/network/interfaces and reboot

* You should see the graphical log-in screen and be able to connect to 
wifi using network-manager-gnome when you log in

* Install other packages as needed

I'm sure we won't need to use work-arounds soon enough.

Cheers
--
Keith Burnett