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UbuntuStudio 20.04 meta installer gone?

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I tried Ubuntu Studio 20.04 in a VM to prep for migration. As I installed I kept waiting for the package selection dialog I've always seen to pop up but it never did. I installed thinking maybe on first login? Nope...I poked around and found the meta installer thing which only gave me an option to install branding but never to choose if I was setting up for Audio, Video, Photography, Design, etc. It just installed EVERYTHING.

Is this a bug? Oversight? -or is this actually a design decision to just install every bit of cruft possible no matter what the intended use is? -Asking for a friend...

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answered 2 Years ago tiowift · Accepted Answer

It's not a design decision.
The UbuntuStudio Release Notes states:

Changes for this release (compared to 19.10 Eoan Ermine)



    The package/metapackage selection screen has been removed from the Ubiquity

    (live session) installer due to a bug which caused unwanted packages to be

    removed.

The only option to choose desired components I see at the moment is to use the Ubuntu Studio Installer which can be used after installing any other official flavour of Ubuntu (see http://ubuntustudio.org/download/). Many users seem to prefer the plasma desktop (Kubuntu) which will be default in 20.10 (see http://ubuntustudio.org/news/)