Using OpenVPN from Xfce Desktop Environment

[Worrier Poet]

On 06/23/2012 11:43 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On sam., 2012-06-23 at 11:39 -0400, Worrier Poet wrote:
>> Pardon my pressing the point a bit -- you don't think that installing
>> the network-manager stuff is likely to bring any weirdness into my
>> beloved Xfce environment? There seem to be a lot of dependencies. I
>> guess the best way to handle it is to install
>> network-manager-openvpn-gnome and let it pull in whatever it wants.
> 
> Try to install without recommends (apt-get --no-install-recommends) and
> see if it's better (but check carefully so you don't miss anything
> important).
> 
> I have a Squeeze install somewhere which use network-manager on Xfce,
> and afaict it works just fine.
> 

Worked just great! Thanks for the hand-holding.

Good fortune to you!
the worrier