On Mar 24, 2011, at 5:07 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2011-03-24, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote:
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] .
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
1) gdm3
Install the following packages:
2) fast-user-switch-applet [2.24.0-6 (stable)]
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
Now answer "y". All will be well and after a reboot you will get the
familiar gdm login screen with the "Actions" option that allows you
to
set themes and color-schemes.
Ahhhh! *So* much better!
You should get the same result if you install in one shot:
aptitude install gdm fast-user-switch-applet
True. But how to know that? I'd need to do a detailed study of the
ramified dependencies of gdm and gdm3. All I really wanted was to
replace gdm3 with gdm. Aptitude and apt are supposed to be there to
keep me from having to understand the dependency tree in all its gory
detail.
The "." trick does the exploration for me, if I know to use it. It's
in the documentation, but it's not immediately obvious that it solves
this kind of problem.
I hope that reporting my experiences here will raise consciousness of
the tissue, and in the future others will read this thread and learn
how to improve their user experience with Debian.
Enjoy!
Rick
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