Are these tasks up-to-date and maintained by Ubuntu? Who knows. I never even heard about tasks and tasksel until well after the abysmal experience of trying to install the xubuntu-desktop package.
When I google "install xubuntu-desktop" this is what I see.
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1. Install Xubuntu sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop.
2. Log out, log back in, selecting Xubuntu/Xfce as my interface.
3. Chill out for a few days. See that things still work. ...
4. Clean up. sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get autoremove # removes dependencies of ubuntu-desktop.
This is obviously WRONG for the reasons already stated in the above comments.
Maybe using tasksel and choosing xubuntu-desktop is the better way of installing. But I would urge the Ubuntu / Debian developers to consider the idea that most people using this system won't know when to uses tasks versus a meta package or even trust the tasks to be correct.
This function is similar to that of meta-packages, and, in fact, most of the tasks available from tasksel are also available as meta-packages from the Ubuntu package managers (such as Synaptic Package Manager or KPackageKit).
Because the package managers now have most of the tasks as meta-packages, tasksel is not installed by default on editions of Ubuntu (such as Desktop editions) that have package managers. (Tasksel is still installed by default on server editions).
Are these tasks up-to-date and maintained by Ubuntu? Who knows. I never even heard about tasks and tasksel until well after the abysmal experience of trying to install the xubuntu-desktop package.
When I google "install xubuntu-desktop" this is what I see.
1 Answer
1. Install Xubuntu sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop.
2. Log out, log back in, selecting Xubuntu/Xfce as my interface.
3. Chill out for a few days. See that things still work. ...
4. Clean up. sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get autoremove # removes dependencies of ubuntu-desktop.
Oct 30, 2011 /askubuntu. com/questions/ 65861/how- to-i-change- from-ubuntu- to-xubuntu
system installation - How to I change from Ubuntu to Xubuntu ...
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This is obviously WRONG for the reasons already stated in the above comments.
Maybe using tasksel and choosing xubuntu-desktop is the better way of installing. But I would urge the Ubuntu / Debian developers to consider the idea that most people using this system won't know when to uses tasks versus a meta package or even trust the tasks to be correct.
Even the documentation points to not bother with tasks or what they are for: /help.ubuntu. com/community/ Tasksel
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This function is similar to that of meta-packages, and, in fact, most of the tasks available from tasksel are also available as meta-packages from the Ubuntu package managers (such as Synaptic Package Manager or KPackageKit).
Because the package managers now have most of the tasks as meta-packages, tasksel is not installed by default on editions of Ubuntu (such as Desktop editions) that have package managers. (Tasksel is still installed by default on server editions).