KDE on MX?

[joany]

MX-14 has completely reworked muser, and added the very handy MX-Flash and MX-Codecs that Warren never had.

Very nice, although I notice MX-Flash and MX-Codecs are not installed by default. Legal reasons, perhaps? Also, when I ran MX-Codecs there were errors. Does something else have to be enabled?

EDIT: Never mind. I ran MX-Codecs again, and the installation was successful. Temporary glitch, I guess.

The other thing I notice is that MX User Assistant and MX User Manger both open the same application. Are there supposed to be two different applications, or is the same application shown twice under two different names?

MX-Flash and MX-Codecs are installed by default in RC2, have you installed RC2?

A while back I think you did a install of either Beta 1 or Beta 2, but just upgrading wouldn't necessarily bring in those apps.

That might also explain why you have both 'MX User Assistant' and 'MX User Manager'. During development the app name changed to 'MX User manager' (installed by the mx-user package) and that's the only one you should see listed in the Whiskermenu of a RC2 install.

I've been running Beta 2 (MX-14_13.98) have upgraded all the upgradeable packages, but I have not done a complete reinstall of RC1 or RC2.

[Jerry3904]

That's great if that's the way you want to do it, Joany, but recognize that doing it that way brings consequences. The distance between Beta 2 and RC1 was pretty substantial, and a great deal happened behind the scenes at every level.

It's finally totally your call how you want to proceed, but you should understand that we will be necessarily focusing our limited resources on supporting Final. Once it is released, all support for the Betas and RCs will end, so people trying to come up from Beta 2 to Final without a clean install will be pretty much on their own, I'm sorry to say.

[lucky9]

M11 still has the System Assistant for fixing GRUB.

But it is useless at best and dangerous to use in MEPIS12

I simply pointed out that Mepis 11 has the System Assistant. Pertaining to the point previously made that it was a considerable aid to those new to Linux and GRUB. It was certainly a valuable tool for me when I started using Mepis.

And no mention (by me) was made about using it on Mepis 11.9.xx at all. (As I know it's not there. And that Mepis 11.9.xx uses GRUB 2.)

[joany]

That's great if that's the way you want to do it, Joany, but recognize that doing it that way brings consequences. The distance between Beta 2 and RC1 was pretty substantial, and a great deal happened behind the scenes at every level.

It's finally totally your call how you want to proceed, but you should understand that we will be necessarily focusing our limited resources on supporting Final. Once it is released, all support for the Betas and RCs will end, so people trying to come up from Beta 2 to Final without a clean install will be pretty much on their own, I'm sorry to say.

I understand. The Beta 2 was just a test drive on VirtualBox to find my way around MX-14, learn about installing KDE on top of it, and play around with installing GRUB2 on the PBR. I always wait until the final comes out before doing a permanent installation on the HDD. I must say that from what I've seen from the test, it should be a fairly easy installation.

[Gaer Boy]

I was bored this morning, so I reinstalled RC2, added KDE-Lite desktop, installed all my main apps and customised the KDE desktop a bit. Everything I've tested works fine, although there are a few missing items. The whole process from live boot to complete desktop took 55 mins and this is the result:

MX-14-KDE.jpg

Here's a list of what I did, and I had no problems.

Boot Live & install.
Synaptic - reload and install updates (7 packages)
Meta - Install KDE_Lite (149 packages)
Disk-Manager - mount data partitions
Meta - Install Firefox, Thunderbird
Synaptic - Enable VBox & add suldr repos, Reload, Check-Apt-GPG (for suld), Reload
Synaptic - Install VBox 4.3.8
MX-User - Add phil to vboxusers
Synaptic - Install Samsung printer driver
Menu>Printing - Install printer, test page OK
Synaptic - Install KMyMoney (12), Digikam/kipi (27), Quodlibet (4 packages)
Login to KDE desktop, copy M12 desktop settings files to ~/.kde/share/config
Logout/in to new KDE desktop, change wallpaper to Turbulence.

I think this will be my standard for the desktop when Final is out, and I will use xfde on the netbook.

[Jerry3904]

I can easily see this as a Doc or a video.

Seems to me this is a good place for Adrian's trick of producing a list of apps you have installed as a text file (don't remember the command to do that, but somebody will know), then using a terminal to reinstall them as a batch by pasting the file contents behind an apt-get install command.

[Stevo]

I can easily see this as a Doc or a video.

Seems to me this is a good place for Adrian's trick of producing a list of apps you have installed as a text file (don't remember the command to do that, but somebody will know), then using a terminal to reinstall them as a batch by pasting the file contents behind an apt-get install command.

Maybe we can use apt-clone for that. It's in the repos, and is described as

Script to create state bundles

This package can be used to clone/restore the packages on a apt based
system. It will save/restore the packages, sources.list, keyring and
automatic-installed states. It can also save/restore no longer
downloadable packages using dpkg-repack.

Though you can do the same thing with Synaptic, with File--Save Markings As..., then load that saved file in Synaptic on the new install to reinstall what you had on the original.

So if you have packages in the apt cache, it looks like you can save those also for reinstallation, rather than redownload them. I'm going to look at the home page of the application...

[Jerry3904]

It would be nice to get a list of just what the user has installed manually, seems to me.

[uncle mark]

Seems to me this is a good place for Adrian's trick of producing a list of apps you have installed as a text file (don't remember the command to do that, but somebody will know), then using a terminal to reinstall them as a batch by pasting the file contents behind an apt-get install command.

It's a simple apt-get command that outputs package names to a text file that you can save. Then you just copy/paste the same names into an apt-get install command. I looked for the command recently but couldn't find it to save my azz.

[richb]

To get the list and create a text file.

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dpkg --get-selections > list.txt

To retore to a new installation

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dpkg --clear-selections
dpkg --set-selections < list.txt