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Bug#773293: kde-plasma-desktop: Can't install kde-plasma-desktop non-interactively due to kdm configuration dialog



tag 773293 unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

Hi Bob!

On Tuesday 16 December 2014 09:31:28 Bob Doolittle wrote:
> Source: kde-plasma-desktop
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I am trying to install kde-plasma-desktop non-interactively (i.e. from a
> script). kde-plasma-desktop pulls in both lightdm and kdm packages, both of
> which want to be the default display manager.

kde-plasma-desktop recommends kdm but does not mentions lightdm in any way.

> I am using
> debconf-set-selections to set the "shared/default-x-display-manager"
> question for both kdm and lightdm before running apt-get, to avoid
> interaction. Unfortunately the dialog is still presented to choose kdm or
> lightdm. If I use "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=non-interactive apt-get install" I avoid
> the interaction, but the configuration database values are overwritten to
> prefer kdm.

Are you forcing the installation of lightdm in your script? Or is it being 
installed as a recommendation of some other package?

We need to know that in order to know whether this is a bug or not.

Kinds regards, Lisandro.

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