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Re: LXQt now in Xenial repos!

 

Will be trying this on the iBook

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> On Dec 11, 2015, at 10:13 AM, Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> actually that's quite brilliant. thanks for the suggestion!
> 
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> 
>> On Dec 11, 2015 4:12 AM, "Phill. Whiteside" <phillwuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Walter,
>> 
>> whilst we await the arrival of the meta-package, does it not make more sense (i.e. cleaner lxqt install) to install the xenial 32 bit netboot (mini.iso) and then add lxqt onto it? [1]
>> obconf is used instead of obconf-qt as the qt version is not yet fully ready.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Phill.
>> 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/LXQt#Installing_LXQt_on_fresh_system
>> 
>>> On 10 December 2015 at 23:53, Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> For those of you that looked at the meeting notes, you may have seen the announcement that LXQt is now in the Xenial repos. The lxqt-metapackage is not, though. However, you can manually install all the right packages. What it needs is a little exploratory testing. So here's your assignment, should you choose to accept it:
>>> 
>>>  1. install the development version of Lubuntu
>>>  2. install the following packages: `lximage-qt lxqt-about lxqt-admin lxqt-common lxqt-config lxqt-globalkeys lxqt-notificationd lxqt-openssh-askpass lxqt-panel lxqt-policykit lxqt-powermanagement lxqt-qtplugin lxqt-runner lxqt-session lxqt-sudo pcmanfm-qt qterminal qupzilla`
>>>  3. purge the following packages: `light-locker xfce4-power-manager`
>>>  4. log out and back in again
>>>  5. use it
>>>  6. report any bugs to the appropriate package on Launchpad
>>>     * make sure to search for similar ones first
>>>     * don't forget to subscribe Lubuntu Packages Team
>>> 
>>> Something similar is set up on the Google Code-In. If teenagers can do it, so can you. :)
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