Public bug reported:
from a reddit post complaining about problems with minimal install of
kubuntu 26.04, I investigate and reproduced some problems with the
minimal install.
When you launch the software 'shopping bag' icon, there is a dialog
Launch a Package Manger. It includes a helpful link "Manage Software
HOW-TO". But this is an html file and there is no browser installed
[Problem 1], so it opened it in the kate text editor, although in my VM
I first have to give Kate permission to open such a large file. HTML in
a text editor is not good.
This dialog says "Use Discover for Snaps, most Debian packages and
Flatpaks". But by default in the minimal install, Snaps and Flatpaks are
disabled {Problem 2]. if this is intended, present a different context
aware dialog to the user.
So you open Discover. There is no Firefox as a install candidate.
You can open Discover Settings, and you can see Snap as a source, but
you can not select Snap as a source [Problem 3]. This is probably
because snapd is not installed, but there is just silent failure.
There is a button to add flatpak support, and after clicking that and
entering the password, ... Flatpak isn't there at all, it just
disappears! [Problem 4] However, when you exit Discover and start it
again, Flatpak is there. However, it does nothing until you then click
the "Use Flathub" button. And now finally there is a Firefox in Discover
All Applications, although not the snap. You can install it, but it does
not start and it is not in the menus. [I guess this is problem 5]
Since I finally got a browser installed (via terminal), I tried to
report a bug ("Report a problem"). Is it "installation"? No, reporter
exits with "Could not determine the package or source package name". I
tried "Other" and got an other useless message and failure.
Suggestion to fix:
Warn users: the Minimal Install is for advanced users.
Have a context aware dialog for packages.
Have something installed which can render HTML documentation.
Or install a browser and snapd at the least.
I didn't investigate why the flatpak experience was broken.
** Affects: calamares-settings-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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minimal install is a very bad new user experience 26.04
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