[SERVER] How to remove gnome and other applications - headless

[Stephan Hermann]

Hey Ogra,

On Wednesday 11 May 2005 21:49, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.05.2005, 14:49 -0400 schrieb Robert Jameson:
> > We did a default install of hoary on a server -- this server dosnt need
> > gnome and all the other librarys and applications is there a meta
> > package I can remove to uninstall all this stuff.
> >
> > I know we should of used the custom install command from the cd -- but
> > it's too late now.  We've already removed gdm from starting up by using
> > rcconf.
>
> for the future... if you install hoary on a server, just use the
> "server" bootoption in the installer, this will give you a nice server
> installation out of the box with no unnecessary packages.

The problem is more the "deboostrap" method.
There is no option for "server" or "workstation".
So, I removed all gnome stuff, was suprised, that postfix was removed too, 
reinstalled postfix and try to clean up the rest of the X stuff and some 
other things.

Now it's working perfectly.

regards,

\sh