Why isn't slim in the repositories anymore?

[Warpnow]

Really annoying...I used it on most of my systems.

[Tibuda]

Yeah, me too. This explains it: http://osdir.com/ml/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2009-09/msg00097.html


The reason it is not in karmic (and can't be now) is presumably because it was not in Debian when we synced from Debian earlier in the release cycle. Ubuntu has not modified it in any way - we've just taken it from Debian. If it gets back in Debian it will get back in Ubuntu.

Looking at packages.debian.org I find slim in lenny and sid. It has some terrible bugs though including one that says you can login as root without a password! It sounds like it is good that it is not in karmic!

[Warpnow]

So...slim is not included...GDM is now entirely gnome dependent with a broken legacy package...what are we supposed to use to login?

[Tibuda]

Yeah, that sucks. Some login managers:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/xdm
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/sdm
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/wdm
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/ldm
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/kdm

You could also try to install the jaunty package for slim, but I'm not sure if it would work:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/slim

[kavon89]

Best bet is to just install it from source. The version Debian repos have might not be the very latest and some of those severe bugs may have been resolved.

[liquidbee]

Download, compile, use .. share!