On 04/15/2017 09:26 AM, Spike wrote: > Israel, > > thanks for your input, and maybe I'm doing something wrong, but like I > said if I used what you describe, ie a normal install with preseed I > get something different than the lubuntuCD. the most striking > difference is the presence of ibus and language support being broken > (while it works out of the box if I install from lubuntu CD). > > I have been unable to install a plain ubuntu distro and then lxde on > top. Do you have any idea what I may be missing? > > thanks, > > Spike > .. how are you installing the 'plain' ubuntu distro, is this the mini.iso or are you installing Ubuntu with unity? I have installed lubuntu-desktop on top of other DE before and I have not had any issues, but if you are installing on an environment with ibus already included the language support might be broken in ibus, and you can switch to fcitx (which is used by Lubuntu now IIRC).
The preseed is used to create the ISO and the subsequent install to disk. It is used by the Debian installer (ubiquity is the Ubuntu graphical installer front end to this). So, if you are trying to install the meta-package 'lubuntu-desktop' you will have the Lubuntu install on top of whatever you install. If you install 'lxde' then you will not get 'lubuntu-desktop' installed ONLY lxde To see the difference between the packages run apt show lubuntu-desktop apt show lxde If you are using an older version use 'apt-cache' instead of 'apt' I hope this clears things up a bit -- Regards -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
