Upgrading from Debian to LMDE regarding LXDE + wicd

[jarlax]

Hi folks !

I didn't know where to post this so finally here ! Feel free to move it to a better category if necessary.

I'm a debian user for quite a long time (use lxde / wicd), and for the same reasons as many wanted to try LMDE (more userfriendly, but keep the strong of Debian).

Previously I tried to upgrade from a tuto which suggested some pinning (in the /etc/apt/preferences), and some lines added to the sources.list, but I had some issues. Finally, I decided to start it from scratch, downloaded the lastest LMDE edition (the one with MATE and Cinnamon). But I found this installed gnome with network manager, wich is too big for my eeepc.

I wanted to replace gnome-network-manager by wicd, then switch from gnome to lxde. I discovered gnome-network-manager has its different name, and is integrate to cinnamon.

So this is the question: which way would be the best to have a debian lmde'ed tasted with lxde/wicd installed ?

[hellfire695]

I would think the best would be to simply do a debian stable minimal install then replace the debian sources with the lmde sources list


just don't quote me on this, I havent that method, its just an idea

[jarlax]

I'm just giving it a try.
install a squeeze lxde version with wicd, then upgrade to lmde
hope there won't have any trouble with the network manager stuff.

anyone else have done an equivalent procedure ?

[äxl]

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