Comment 2 for bug 1062758

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Javier Domingo (txomon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1062758] Re: In text installation select and install programs menu needs improvement

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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