Minimal install - network manager

[pangeh]

Hi,

Maybe a silly question but I installed ubuntu 12.04 minimal install over ubuntu server 12.04 for a basic gui using the sudo apt-get install --install-no-recommends ubuntu-desktop.

After installing I was configuring the network in /etc/network/interfaces. When browsing /etc I noticed that there was no network manager folder.

I just wanted to confirm that this is the case - that network manager is not installed with the no-recommends install of Ubuntu 12.04 or with Ubuntu server 12.04??

Thanks in advance for your kind help

regards
P.

[Paqman]

Yep, as you can see from the list of packages in ubuntu-desktop, network-manager-gnome is a recommended package, not a dependency.

[pootan]

Gnome network manager pulls in quite a few packages so perhaps see if you can get wicd working first. I've installed it on my xubuntu-desktop --no recommends build and it works fine


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