Few questions on AntiX

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Re: Few questions on AntiX

#11 Post by phirephoto »

Is there a easy way to get gnome installed? I see a few references:
"I suggest the gnome option uner Window Manager in Mx-packageinstaller"... I don't have mx-package installer, I have package installer, and gnome isn't listed..

Trying to apt install gnome or gnome core:

$ sudo apt install gnome-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gnome-core is already the newest version (1:3.22+3).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up network-manager (1.6.2-3+0nosystemd1) ...
[ ok ] Reloading system message bus config...done.

The following network interfaces were found in /etc/network/interfaces
which means they are currently configured by ifupdown:
- eth0
- eth1
- eth2
- eth3
- wlan0
If you want to manage those interfaces with NetworkManager instead
remove their configuration from /etc/network/interfaces.

update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
insserv: Service eudev has to be enabled to start service network-manager
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package network-manager (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager-gnome:
network-manager-gnome depends on network-manager (>= 1.6); however:
Package network-manager is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package network-manager-gnome (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome:
gnome depends on network-manager-gnome (>= 1.4); however:
Package network-manager-gnome is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package gnome (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
network-manager
network-manager-gnome
gnome
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Re: Few questions on AntiX

#12 Post by phirephoto »

Uh oh.. I think I got gnome installed. I was able to see it as a desktop manager. I switched to it, but then an error popped up - accidentally hit cancel I think and error went away and screen went back to just the background image (Nothing else) no click or right click worked. Rebooted, and now it reboots to just a login screen, ie username then password. Login, and I'm at the console, no gui

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Re: Few questions on AntiX

#13 Post by asqwerth »

You're in antix, not mx Linux, so of course you won't see mx packageinstaller.

Antix does not contain systemd packages at all . Gnome and network manager won't work with antix as a result.
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Re: Few questions on AntiX

#14 Post by anticapitalista »

network manager will work as we package a systemd-free version. But, forget about gnome - too many systemd dependencies. (same with budgie desktop)
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Re: Few questions on AntiX

#15 Post by phirephoto »

asqwerth wrote: Thu Aug 30, 2018 5:28 pm You're in antix, not mx Linux, so of course you won't see mx packageinstaller.

Antix does not contain systemd packages at all . Gnome and network manager won't work with antix as a result.
Oh :( So how do I set back my desktop manager to default via shell? I'm stuck in shell now when I reboot. I did uninstall gnome... (sudo apt remove gnome) but got errors:$ sudo apt remove gnome
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'gnome' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up network-manager (1.6.2-3+0nosystemd1) ...
[ ok ] Reloading system message bus config...done.

The following network interfaces were found in /etc/network/interfaces
which means they are currently configured by ifupdown:
- eth0
- eth1
- eth2
- eth3
- wlan0
If you want to manage those interfaces with NetworkManager instead
remove their configuration from /etc/network/interfaces.

update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
insserv: Service eudev has to be enabled to start service network-manager
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package network-manager (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager-gnome:
network-manager-gnome depends on network-manager (>= 1.6); however:
Package network-manager is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package network-manager-gnome (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
network-manager
network-manager-gnome
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Re: Few questions on AntiX

#16 Post by phirephoto »

I think I got it. I have no idea what I did but I'm back in the GUI.

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Re: Few questions on AntiX

#17 Post by phirephoto »

*sigh* I spoke too soon. I switched to cinnamon ( I believe). I couldn't log in (auto login) as me - I'd just get the background - no menu or anything. Log out and log in as root, and I could get the menu and everything but couldn't switch desktops. I figured - wrongly? apt-remove cinnamon. Now I reboot, and when I get the cinnamon login, I login in and it says Failed to load session *cinnamon* <Log Out>. No way to change the login desktop manager. One other DM I recall said hit F1 at login and it would allow me to change which DM to login to, I see no way to do this in cinnamon and now I'm in a loop :( I can still ssh to it from my desktop machine but can't do anything.

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Re: Few questions on AntiX

#18 Post by asqwerth »

You may wish to switch from antix to mx if you want to run all these desktop environments. Antix by default focuses on window managers, not DE. They use a minimalist desktop manager as well.

I don't know if the cinnamon packages in Debian have systemd dependencies.

You may need to visit antix's own forum for more detailed help.
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Re: Few questions on AntiX

#19 Post by phirephoto »

asqwerth wrote: Fri Aug 31, 2018 1:45 am You may wish to switch from antix to mx if you want to run all these desktop environments. Antix by default focuses on window managers, not DE. They use a minimalist desktop manager as well.

I don't know if the cinnamon packages in Debian have systemd dependencies.

You may need to visit antix's own forum for more detailed help.
Thanks, I posted there.. Is there any advantages of mx over antix? Can I 'upgrade' without losing anything?

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Re: Few questions on AntiX

#20 Post by asqwerth »

MX Linux has more eye candy customisation options and MX user tools. It is more geared towards desktop environments which you seem more interested in than window managers. However, if you have older hardware and not much RAM (2GB or less), antix is more suitable.

I would advise not to "upgrade" from antix to MX as who knows how borked your antix system is already after the attempted gnome and cinnamon installations. However, I'll let more expert members address this point.

For me, I would carry out a fresh install of MX Linux but during installation, choose to preserve your /home partition. That should help you keep the personalised settings of the applications you were using in antix.

And before you commence installation (thereby wiping out your antix partition), you should make a list of all the additional applications you had installed while in antix, so that you can quickly reinstall them again in MX, if they are not already present.
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