David,
It said a choice was called:
"something else".
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 11:01
PM
Subject: Re: How to Install Basic Debian
CLI System with Networking and screen reader
What was the "something
else"? I don't know, and I can't tell you unless you tell me.
This page says you will have
choices, but doesn't list the choices:
It does say that right at
package selection you have a working Debian system.
The Package Selection part
says this helpful thing.
The “Desktop
environment” task
will install a graphical desktop environment.
The
instructions referenced above with the link says the default graphical
desktop environment is GNOME but I've found that it installs
MATE.
I
cannot find anywhere where it tells me where the Package Selections are, so I
made a vmware installation of the latest Debian Net Install.
1)
Debian desktop environment, (*)
2)
... GNOME,
3)
... xfce,
4)
... GNOME
Flashback,
5)
... KDE Plasma,
6)
... Cinnamon,
7)
... MATE, (*)
8)
... LXDE,
9)
... LXQt,
10)
... web server,
11)
... ssh server,
12)
... standard system utilities, (*)
1,
7 and 12 will be installed as default if you do nothing.
So for a CLI system, I'm
going to just install 12, standard
system utilities.
But
first since I already have a virtual system, I am going to install the
Default:
1)
Debian desktop environment, 7) ... MATE, and 12) ...
standard system utilities.
I deleted the Virtual Debian
installation and reinstalled just picking #12, standard system
utilities.
This time I had no
networking like I had with the Default installation, 1, 7, and 12.
Also the programs nmcli and
nmtui both were not available, so I have no way to access the Internet.
It might be my Virtual Box
settings, I've had to play around with them before to get connectivity, but
the default settings would not allow me to ping google.com.
So it looks like you'll
still need to either install a GUI then purge the GUI programs for MATE or
connect to Ethernet or use the difficult for me to remember console commands
to connect. My notebook only has WiFi..
Regards,
David
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 3:47 PM K0LNY
<glenn@ervin.email> wrote:
David,
The way the menus were laid out over SSH, it
sounded like #13 was
something else
But I wasn't sure if it was stating that this
was #13, but all the other choices were desktop environments, which I knew I
didn't want.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 1:46
PM
Subject: Re: How to Install Basic
Debian CLI System with Networking and screen reader
Glenn,
You didn't say what choice #13 is.
Just select nothing at all.
Then get smxi and install your console browsers and utilities.
Download and unzip and the file you want to run is "smxi". So chmod
+x that file and run it using root from the directory you downloaded it to
by using ./smxi the smxi script will move itself where it belongs.
Run smxi as root and follow the prompts to update and upgrade then go
to Program Install and install Console Browsers, Console Utilities
and Ceni which is an accessible network manager.
Then you'll have a functional console system just remember the
command for Ceni has a capital "C". Install nmcli and nntui when you
have networking using "apt install nmcli nntui".
Does anyone remember the very old text menu for Debian? It allowed
users to select programs by description, they were all console interface
programs.
Regards,
David
On Tue, May 30, 2023, 12:55 K0LNY
<glenn@ervin.email> wrote:
Does
this install anything CLI only? I ran it, and the menus via SSH are
sketchy, I wanted to select "something else" and I think it is #13,
but I was afraid of doing a desktop install, because if I
accidentally did that, the OMV won't install, and I would have to
start over with my Debian CLI setup. Glenn ----- Original Message
----- From: "Geoff Shang" <geoff@QuiteLikely.com> To:
<debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> Sent:
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 2:52 AM Subject: Re: How to Install Basic
Debian CLI System with Networking and screen reader
>
On Tue, 30 May 2023, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > >> I don't
even know what you're talking about. If I knew what your
message >> meant and how to do it, I'd gladly do it, but I
don't understand your >> message, someone here
must. > > In Debian, there is a package called
tasksel. The program that it > provides runs as part of the
installation, but you can also presumably run > it at any
time. > > This is the part of the installation where you can
choose categories of > software which wil be installed.
This is the part where I said that you > can install a text only
ssytem but not installing any of the desktop >
environments. > > If I run tasksel on my installed system, I
get the following screen: > > Software selection >
------------------ > > You can choose to install one or more
of the following predefined > collections of
software. > > 1. Debian desktop
environment 4. ... GNOME Flashback 7. ... MATE 10.
> web server > 2. ... GNOME
5. ... KDE Plasma
8. ... LXDE 11. > SSH
server > 3. ... Xfce
6. ... Cinnamon
9. ... LXQt 12. > laptop > >
(Enter the items or ranges you want to select, separated by
spaces.) > > Choose software to
install: > > > > This has changed a bit over
time. You can see in the above list that > options 1
through 9 are all GUI-related, with Web Server, SSH Server and >
Laptop as the remaining ptions. I know in the past there were
things like > print server. > > Anyway, Samuel is
suggesting reporting a bug against the tasksel package, >
requesting that a "textual desktop" option be added and listing which
> packages that this option should install. > > You
can use reportbug to do this. > > I've not used reportbug in
some time so I can't really speak to using it, > but it should be
installed and I'm guessing there's documentation for it. > >
HTH, > Geoff. >
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