On Sun 25 Dec 2016 at 22:19:27 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings everybody, I hope you have had and enjoyable day; > > I am currently logged into a raspi 3b with an armhf jessie-lite install. > > That means the only x is enough to export it. But I know for a fact that > x can run quite well, I have seen it do so. > > But that install was well and truly wrecked because the kernel wasn't > pinned, and it was a realtime kernel. So the updater overwrote the > kernel with one that can't do the job and by the time I realized the > kernel running wasn't the right one, and I could not force the > re-installation because it couldn't, even as root, overwrite the overlay > stuff. > > So this is a fresh install of jessie-lite for armhf. > > Installing lightdm, and telling it to open a default "seat" gets me a > teeny little, non-movable terminal with just enough mouse to allow me > to put keyboard focus on it. From there I can cd around, run nano, or > even run the app I built this to run, linuxcnc. > > But I need a real "desktop", so despite the fact that aptitude has > totally destroyed my systems twice with its wild dependency removals, > its the only thing I have that can show me a list of files. > So I am sitting with task-lxde-desktop selected, and looking at a > screenfull of red because its dependencies aren't satisfied. > I want to install it, but not as it shows in the view. > > If it will install everything marked in red, then it will install a bunch > of stuff I absolutely do not need for this job, like 500 megabytes of > libreoffice stuff. > > Help please, or tell me how to run synaptic, it won't let the default > user, pi run it without the ROOT passwd, which something in polkit-1 has > kittens over because that makes me not the logged in user, or if I > become root and try to run synaptic, it can't open display 10:. > > So aptitude guru's, how do I install lxde so I might have a useable > desktop, without also installing half a gigabyte of libreoffice I do NOT > need on a limited resource machine. > > If I need to use a libreoffice/openoffice tool, I have half a dozen other > x86 boxes about the place that can run it just fine. > > Many Thanks for any help.
Package: task-lxde-desktop Depends: tasksel (= 3.31+deb8u1), task-desktop, lightdm, lxde Recommends: lxtask, lxlauncher, xsane, libreoffice-gtk, synaptic, iceweasel, libreoffice, libreoffice-help-en-us, mythes-en-us, hunspell-en-us, hyphen-en-us, system-config-printer, gnome-orca so how about: # aptitude -R Cheers, David.
