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<font size="-1">Greetings members,<br>
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I was installing vz-guest-tools-lin for openvz7 via the prlctl
installtools command. The inserted CD image contains an install
script.<br>
<br>
This script attempts to first run noninteractive apt-get -y
install gdebi on debian systems. This pulls in many MBs worth of
stuff for Xorg and GTK, since this package contains the gdebi-gtk
graphical frontend for gdebi.<br>
<br>
It is absolutely enough to install gdebi-core, which provides the
required gdebi core in /usr/share/gdebi. The installer falls back
to dpkg -i anyway so I think the whole gdebi installation is unnecessary.<br>
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However when you don't install gdebi, the installer spits out many
bash errors (gdebi: command not found) as it it constantly falling
back to dpkg, which happened to me when I didn't configure the VM
network adapter yet. This appears very confusing to the user.<br>
<br>
I would love to submit a pull request if I could, but I couldn't
find vz-guest-tools source published anywhere except on official
download site.<br>
<br>
I just wanted to share a little insight and if this could be
improved in the future, that would be great.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Ing. Viliam Kubis :)<br>
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