Are these tasks up-to-date and maintained by Ubuntu? Who knows. I never
even heard about tasks and tasksel until well after the abysmal
experience of trying to install the xubuntu-desktop package.
When I google "install xubuntu-desktop" this is what I see.
1 Answer
1. Install Xubuntu sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop.
2. Log out, log back in, selecting Xubuntu/Xfce as my interface.
3. Chill out for a few days. See that things still work. ...
4. Clean up. sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop sudo apt-get autoremove #
removes dependencies of ubuntu-desktop.
Oct 30, 2011
system installation - How to I change from Ubuntu to Xubuntu ...
https://askubuntu.com/questions/65861/how-to-i-change-from-ubuntu-to-xubuntu
This is obviously WRONG for the reasons already stated in the above
comments.
Maybe using tasksel and choosing xubuntu-desktop is the better way of
installing. But I would urge the Ubuntu / Debian developers to consider
the idea that most people using this system won't know when to uses
tasks versus a meta package or even trust the tasks to be correct.
Even the documentation points to not bother with tasks or what they are for:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel
This function is similar to that of meta-packages, and, in fact, most of
the tasks available from tasksel are also available as meta-packages
from the Ubuntu package managers (such as Synaptic Package Manager or
KPackageKit).
Because the package managers now have most of the tasks as meta-
packages, tasksel is not installed by default on editions of Ubuntu
(such as Desktop editions) that have package managers. (Tasksel is still
installed by default on server editions).
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