On 2025-11-14 14:00:26 -0600, David Wright wrote: > How do you deselect GNOME from lenny's menu without deselecting the DE?
I've checked again, and indeed, there were gnome-* packages installed. I thought this was not the case, probably because it wasn't intrusive at that time. On my new laptop, one of the early things I had to do was to replace pinentry-gnome3 (which does not work outside GNOME) by pinentry-curses and pinentry-gtk2. I had to remove other GNOME packages later. > > I'm also wondering whether this is sufficient for wifi connections > > (this is obviously a must for laptops). > > AFAICT if you install through a wifi network, the d-i will leave > its wifi packages (ifupdown, wpa_supplicant, etc) in place. I installed my new laptop from a USB memory stick with a netinst image + wifi I think. But wpasupplicant alone is not practical. > You don't need any of the DE, servers, etc checked for that. If you > want Bigsy's specific choice, network-manager, then you're probably > going to have to install it yourself. I'm wondering whether ifupdown configuration set up at install time (e.g. in case of Ethernet network) could be in the way if the intent is to use network-manager. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
