(SOLVED) problems with installed minimal GUI

[Member stevesr0]

Hi all,

I had a CLI install of Sid for several months and yesterday “upgraded” to a minimal GUI install, using Openbox, tint2, feh, uxterm and leafpad.

I tried to install Firefox and (when that failed) Chromium as browsers, but aptitude said that three packages would have to be removed (elogind, liblogind0 and libpam-elogind) and 12 (i386) packages installed.

The three packages seem necessary for the GUI and I have an amd64 version, so I don’t want to do that.

I have been able to install gutebrowser without aptitude complaining.

N.B. I have the dbus version available installed – I tried installing the nosystemd version which is “older”, but aptitude kept “refusing”.

I am wondering if there is a known issue with elogind, liblogind0 and/or libpam-elogind. These are all version 246.9.1-1.0antix1.

Appreciate any advice referral or comments.

stevesr0

• This topic was modified 1 week, 1 day ago by stevesr0.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

Can you post the exact message from the terminal and your repos list.

Make sure you have (since firefox and Chromium demand it) dbus-x11 installed.
Palemoon does not need dbus IIRC.

• This reply was modified 1 week, 1 day ago by anticapitalista.

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[Member stevesr0]

Hi anticapitalista,

Thanks for the response.

I didn’t have dbus-x11 installed. When I installed that, then firefox and lxterminal installed without complaint. LXterminal launched ok and works fine, but firefox displayed an error message complaining about a dbus-glib-1.so.2 file not being available.

After installing dbus-glib-1-2, firefox launches without an error message.

So, I have marked this as solved.

stevesr0

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