kickstart, installing extra packages

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:14:18PM -0500, Kent Borg wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how to get kickstart to install additional
> packages, but not succeeding.
> 
> My ks.cfg file was generated by the GUI tool, I added my extra
> packages by hand, and the file ends like this:
> 
>   #X Window System configuration information
>   xconfig --depth=24 --resolution=1024x768 --defaultdesktop=GNOME --startxonboot
>   #Package install information
>   %packages
>   @ ubuntu-desktop
>   man

(FYI, that's man-db in Ubuntu, and it's installed by default anyway.)

> After the install I looked in /var/log/installer/debconf-seed and found at the end:
> 
>   d-i partman/choose_partition string Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
>   d-i partman/confirm boolean true
>   base-config base-config/package-selection string (~tubuntu-desktop|~nman|~nftp|~nopenssh-server|~nemacs21|~nsubversion|~ndpkg-dev|~ngcc|~nlibc6-dev|~nmake)
>   d-i debconf/priority select critical
>   base-config base-config/priority select critical
> 
> So, my ks.cfg was seen and read, but it didn't do as I had hoped.  

What's in /var/log/base-config-pkgsel.log? (I assume this is Breezy.)

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]