server config

[Me - Atlantic]

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 07:17 +0100, nanotube wrote:
> ah hmm... well i am not aware of a way to remove all the non-server
> packages (there might be a list of all the packages that get installed
> with regular install, but not with server - in which case you can just
> pipe that to a "sudo apt-get remove". 
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> the next best thing would probably be to look at all the dependencies
> of ubuntu-desktop - since that's a meta package that installs all the
> desktop-y stuff.
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> but at any rate - unless you are /really/ stuck for hd space, there is
> no need to remove all the "desktop" things. just set the default
> runlevel to not start up gdm, and your system will be running nice and
> lean.
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> Me - Atlantic Wrote: 
> > nano~
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> > yeah, that's possible, but i dont' think that i'd get all of the
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> > dependent packages and libraries that get installed on top of the
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> > installed pieces...
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> > i was thinking that there might be some way of undoing it all at
> > once...
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> > On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 01:23 +0100, nanotube wrote:
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> > > i am guessing a "sudo apt-get remove packagename" for whatever you
> > would
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> > > like to uninstall will do the trick just fine... or are you looking
> > for
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> > > something else?
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Nano~
It's a server... there isn't a desktop on it.  I"m wondering if maybe
the contents of installer/syslog would be a place to go and see what's
been installed, and then make a file from there containing everything
except base system and openssh-server and piping that to apt-get
remove...