19 Feb
2018
19 Feb
'18
6:53 p.m.
On Monday 19 February 2018 10:03:11 deloptes wrote:
Brian Durant wrote:
Ultra-minimalist installation! Yes, I believe that this is the true path:
don't install other DEs; use TDE exclusively.
My problem, though, has been that I need to have some kind of working system,
with a usable DE; then I can fiddle with experimental configurations on the
side. I used to have a partition with a stable, working OS, usually running
KDE3 or TDE, when possible, while on a separate partition I would experiment
and learn.
Now that somebody gave me an old laptop (Sony Vaio), I can try to create a
system that runs only TDE from the start. But then you must start out running
everything from a shell, am I right? because you don't yet have TDE
installed? Sort of like Puppy Linux or one of those distros?
My other trick has been to save all the downloaded pkgs, figure out which ones
play well together, save them somewhere in some kind of order, then run
sudo dpkg -i -E -G /media/<wherever>/*.deb
After that, I just run
sudo torify apt-get -f install
to correct any missing dependencies; and of course add those pkgs to the pool
of working pkgs.
Bill
Here is my personal check list to make sure that
useful items get added
to a minimal install:
$ sudo apt-get install clipit axel aria2 aspell-da audacity ripperx
xarchiver desktop-base clipit cups gtkorphan gdebi pulseaudio
pavucontrol pepperflash wicd synaptic xcfa xorg
Ok, but this is according your preferences. From what you have listed I
need to post-install only pavucontrol. The rest is pulled via the
dependencies.
I must admit I have never installed some kind of desktop before installing
TDE.
regards
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