using tasksel to remove Gnome Desktop

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am installing Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit as Guest OS in Vmware and used tasksel
> I removed Gnome-desktop-manager
> it wiped out every thing but since it removed it within Gnome so it
> was not clean thing so I got a lot of dependency errors
> more over when I was on command prompt the arrow up and down keys in
> Guest Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit were not working
> also in tasksel up and down navigation keys were not working.This
> happened after I uninstalled Gnome-Desktop from tasksel and had
> rebooted.
> Any hint as I have recreated the guest but I am having less disk space
> most of the time I am trying the stuff like device drivers so I will
> be on command prompt
> I do not need Gnome or such things in Guest so how to do that cleanly.
> In guest OS.

Perhaps installing the server release?

http://www.ubuntu.com/server

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