Comment 0 for bug 1350537

Starting from a command-line (non-GUI) Ubuntu installation, adding ubuntu-desktop is supposed to be enough. But it is missing some dependencies. In particular, the indicator-* packages (indicator-application, indicator-appmenu, indicator-datetime, indicator-messages, indicator-power, indicator-session, indicator-sound). Without indicator-session, for instance, the GUI has no means of shutting down or rebooting (save for the command-line). Without indicator-datetime, the control panel has no Date & Time applet. (I'm still trying to figure out if some apparently-related packages such as gnome-panel, libindicate-gtk3, libindicate5, sni-qt or telepathy-indicator should be added or not.)

I suspect network-manager-gnome should be added in order to get the network indicator (or maybe indicator-network instead?).

The dash home is crippled unless the unity-lens-* packages are added (unity-lens-applications, unity-lens-files, unity-lens-music, unity-lens-video are the default set it seems).

The apt-xapian-index package is required for Synaptic to have a usable Quick Filter.

Finally, libgtk2-perl is something apt looks for repeatedly, and ought to be added as a dependency as well.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.267.1
Uname: Linux 3.9.3 x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 30 16:08:34 2014
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=fr_CA:fr
SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)