In text installation select and install programs menu needs improvement

[Javier Domingo]

Hi,

I make a lot of installations via netboot, and I have started to realize that the step in which you have to select some meta-packages (i.e. Basic Server Install or LXDE Desktop Minimal Installation), makes quite difficult to install ubuntu at the first go.

Those menus are not intuitive, as if you select Ubuntu Gnome desktop and Kubuntu Full installation (for example), the install will crash. Same thing happens with Kubuntu-full and Kubuntu-desktop installs.

I don't know what is this due to, as for me, selecting in apt command kubuntu-full and kubuntu-desktop at the same time doesn't crash. The fact is that it does.

I have tested this recently with 12.04, but I am almost sure it has been a bug over the last (at least) 2 years.

Cheers,

Txomon

[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

Javier, so selecting seemingly overlapping meta packages is crashing the installer -- is this correct?

[Javier Domingo (txomon)]

I think something like that must be.

Javier Domingo
El 10/10/2012 19:07, "Nicholas Skaggs" <email address hidden>
escribió:

> Javier, so selecting seemingly overlapping meta packages is crashing the
> installer -- is this correct?
>
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> Title:
> In text installation select and install programs menu needs
> improvement
>
> Status in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Hi,
>
> I make a lot of installations via netboot, and I have started to
> realize that the step in which you have to select some meta-packages
> (i.e. Basic Server Install or LXDE Desktop Minimal Installation),
> makes quite difficult to install ubuntu at the first go.
>
> Those menus are not intuitive, as if you select Ubuntu Gnome desktop
> and Kubuntu Full installation (for example), the install will crash.
> Same thing happens with Kubuntu-full and Kubuntu-desktop installs.
>
> I don't know what is this due to, as for me, selecting in apt command
> kubuntu-full and kubuntu-desktop at the same time doesn't crash. The
> fact is that it does.
>
> I have tested this recently with 12.04, but I am almost sure it has
> been a bug over the last (at least) 2 years.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Txomon
>
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[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

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