Re: To add to the menus? A meta installer

2013-06-23 Thread Jimmy Sjölund
Nice work! I'm not familiar with the difficulties between the graphical views in different DEs, but if it's possible to have both terminal and gui version of the installer I think it might appeal to users that are reluctant to terminal stuff. On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Len Ovens

Re: To add to the menus? A meta installer

2013-06-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 10:59 +0200, Jimmy Sjölund wrote: Nice work! +1 I'm not familiar with the difficulties between the graphical views in different DEs, but if it's possible to have both terminal and gui version of the installer I think it might appeal to users that are reluctant to

Re: To add to the menus? A meta installer

2013-06-23 Thread lukefromdc
How wide a range of systems do you think that can be made to work in? There are a lot of external derivatives of Ubuntu these days (not just Mint), plus there is Debian, which Ubuntu and everything downstream from it is based. At some point I will want to try this on a Mint install, as the

Re: To add to the menus? A meta installer

2013-06-23 Thread Len Ovens
On Sun, June 23, 2013 10:33 am, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: How wide a range of systems do you think that can be made to work in? Work? The word work could be deceiving. The installer itself would work on any ubuntu and any derivative. I am not sure how widespread the tools I used are

Re: To add to the menus? A meta installer

2013-06-23 Thread Len Ovens
On Sun, June 23, 2013 1:59 am, Jimmy Sjölund wrote: Nice work! I'm not familiar with the difficulties between the graphical views in different DEs, but if it's possible to have both terminal and gui version of the installer I think it might appeal to users that are reluctant to terminal

Re: To add to the menus? A meta installer

2013-06-23 Thread lukefromdc
Each version of Mint (except the Debian version) uses repos from the version of Ubuntu that released about a month before it. Mint 15 Olivia get almost all its packages from Raring, Mint 14 from Quantal, etc. Mint is in effect a distro-level PPA on top of Ubuntu, from which a very few packages

To add to the menus? A meta installer

2013-06-22 Thread Len Ovens
Lets say you have kubuntu installed and really like the interface, but would like to have ubuntustudio or at least a chunk of the applications. Not too hard to load up synaptic and search ubuntustudio for the metas. Harder on USC which doesn't seem to show such things by default. Also, which ones