Completely remove graphical package management interfaces?

[A. Kromic]

On 01/03/11 10:52, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to install some Ubuntu 10.04 desktops in a SOHO
> environment. One of the things I usually do is uninstall strictly
> everything that's not needed by users.
>
> Since my users are not supposed to install or remove software on the
> desktops, I thought I might as well remove every graphical frontend to
> that, e. g. Synaptic, the Software Center, the Update Manager and the
> likes. Installs and upgrades will only be performed by me, using
> dpkg/apt-get via ssh.
>
> Can anyone of you more familiar than me with these more or less
> redundant interfaces give me a complete list of packages to uninstall
> in that case?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Niki
>

You might remove synaptic and software-center packages, and Update
Manager will be removed automatically too. It will however remove
several other packages, most notably the ubuntu-desktop metapackage, so
check if you really want that...

-- 
A.Kromic


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