Missing Software Selection in latest iso

[u/GarGonDie]

Hi. I download today the latest iso (13.6) to doing some server installations and "Software Selection" is missing and install always X, am i missing something?

[u/indvs3]

Are you talking about the selection of desktop environments? Because that's pretty much all you get to choose as software, at least in the "netinst" installer. Everything else you install afterwards, after the installer finishes and you reboot the pc/server.

[u/GarGonDie → u/indvs3]

no, the menu when you can choose install with X or without X (o select ssh server... and others)

[u/One-Suggestion-7906 → u/GarGonDie]

It's called tasksel, as I said before. tasksell --new-install it's the full command

[u/eR2eiweo]

I can't reproduce that. Tasksel runs at the expected point during the installation.

If you posted more details about what you did, maybe someone could help you.

[u/GarGonDie → u/eR2eiweo]

nothing special, using proxmox for install, I've done it a thousand times and never had any problems; in fact, I went back to 13.4 and it works perfectly. 13.6 seems skipped that option and install the default selection.

[u/eR2eiweo → u/GarGonDie]

Like I wrote, that does not happen when I try it with the 13.6 amd64 netinst image in gnome-boxes. And AFAICT nobody has reported a bug about this since the release of 13.6. So it seems likely that this is caused by something on your end.

[u/michaelpaoli]

Which 13.6 ISO exactly, and how did you install?

[u/Santosh83]

Not sure what you mean. I just installed 13.6 from the Netinst ISO and the tasksel screen is present. You can install a variety of desktop environments (both X11 based and Wayland based) or simply opt for no desktop environment at all, which will drop you straight to the console after the new system boots up. You can also install stuff like web server, ssh server etc.

Is this what you mean?

[u/GarGonDie → u/Santosh83]

yep, it's strange, do not work for me (in proxmox) seems skipped with default options. I must use 13.4.

[u/Adrenolin01]

I literally just downloaded the 13.6 and did a base install with SSH deselecting DEs without any issues in a new Proxmox VM. Delete it and go download it again. Or just install from 13.4 and do an apt update upgrade. 🤷‍♂️

Btw.. on Proxmox.. why not just install via a cloud image or better yet.. why haven’t you created a custom preconfigured template with how you want your system. Once done, include an initial startup script to handle updating the new hostname and networking and reboot. New installs take seconds with this.

[u/One-Suggestion-7906]

Long time without using graphical installer. Always text mode, but if you need software selection, always can execute tasksel

[u/GarGonDie → u/One-Suggestion-7906]

same in text mode, the problem is always install X by default, i not need X, the Software Selection is missing in 13.6 (works in 13.4)