backi wrote:Hi belham!
P.S. Please know if anyone wants and/or would like these builds I am doing, I am not going to upload them anywhere. The point of this whole thread and exercise is the complete-noob simplicity that Fred's buildscript offers.
But maybe you will permit us to have a look at the script you did accomplish your build with ?As a kind of example ....for exercising noobees ....
??? Backi ???
It's already there, Fred wrote it a few messages above. I did nothing to what Fred wrote here (in page 10 of this thread):
Hi Belham,
Here's my setup (used the GUI):
# Base Apps
xfce4 menu leafpad gparted parted pv synaptic volumeicon-alsa alsa-utils firefox-esr=24.8.0esr-1~deb8u2 pm-utils xdotool wmctrl desktop-file-utils mime-support cryptsetup-bin squashfs-tools conky fakeroot xserver-xorg-input-evdev pfind
# Base Dog Apps
yad gtkdialog obshutdown pup-volume-monitor peasywifi edit-sfs-thunar filemnt-thunar remaster-scripts quick-remaster apt2sfs sfsload fixdepinstall greybird-theme-dd-stretch makedebpackage "
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The only thing I added, was exactly like I wrote above, "xfce4-goodies" and "slim" to FRed's suggestion of "xfce4". Just take out of the gui box all the lx-related stuff. Easy peasy. Then, all the personal choices made in what apps you want (i.e. mtpaint, vlc, gedit, anything your heart desires in the deb repo(s) ) are for you to make & choose. Hint: if confused/unsure, open Synaptic, do some searching, decide on what you want, and then just copy that one main item title that is the program over to the build-process GUI box, and then the build-process does all the rest------all the dependency checking, downloading and installing. That's even more easy peasy. Lastly, for Fred's special dog programs if you would like them included, just click the "Information" button in the bottom of the script, and up pops a dialog box of all of Fred's programs you can choose at your will & leisure.
After all of the above, set loose the dogs of war and run the buildscript. It is an awesome beast. A kind one too. And it is simplicity beyond simplicity. The only question the whole build process will ask you (after all that customization you chose) is whether you want to use "gz" or "xz" as the compression method to build the initrd1. That's it.
Next build I do, I will try to include a snapshot of the build GUI before I set it off to do its thing. I just didn't think it was necessary, as doing this may cause people to just copy stuff and not understand why (like the need to remove lx-related stuff when you're installing full xfce-related stuff).
I am still trying to get the budgie-desktop build to go through and boot, but its not working yet. There's something I am missing that I've got to figure out. And after that will be one of my favs, a fluxbox-only desktop build, which should fly like a gossamer down the jungfrau of the Eiger herself.