[wplug] A second debian install question

[Matthew Danish]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:46:14PM -0700, Elwin Green wrote:
> But when I came to tasksel again, an odd thing
> happened. I moved the cursor to the X windows menu
> item and hit the spacebar to select it - and the
> system kicked out of tasksel altogether, moving on to
> dselect without me having selected any tasks.

It's happened to me too--what happens is the cursor gets pushed to the
right, which highlights the Exit button, and then when you hit space it
chooses that instead of the Select button.  It's a minor annoyance, but
it's not really a big deal I think.  Just run the program tasksel again,
whenever you want.

> I don't know enough to select from thousands of
> individual packages on my own, so I skipped dselect.
> The install has continued from there, and looks like
> it will complete successfully. However, this means
> that I'll have to do some post-install tuning that I
> would rather have taken care of *during* installation.

You don't need to start over.  Just run 'tasksel' to use that app, or
(and I highly recommend this over dselect) use apt-get and/or aptitude
(or similar applications).  Choose X Window System from tasksel; it
invokes apt to obtain the necessary packages.  Then run apt-get install
sawfish, and you've got sawfish.  Aptitude is an alternative to dselect,
supposed to be easier to use.

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