On Sun 16 Nov 2025 at 01:19:35 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > 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.
I'm not quite sure why you say wpasupplicant alone. But regardless of that, you can supplement ifupdown/wpasupplicant or replace it in your final installation. I typically use iwd for wifi, systemd-networkd otherwise; the only time I've used ifupdown in several years, apart from in the d-i, is for tethering to my mobile phone, which has the advantage that I didn't need to edit anything that concerned the rest of my network configuration. > > 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. If you want NM to manage an interface, comment out its configuration in /etc/network/interfaces or mangle its filename in /etc/network/interfaces.d/ to hide it. (Debian naming conventions.) Of course, by this means you can also configure different interfaces with ifupdown, NM, and others, as mentioned above. Cheers, David.
