Completely remove graphical package management interfaces?

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:00 +0100, A. Kromic wrote: 
> 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
> >
> 
> I forgot to suggest a possibly better solution - simply disallow your
> users to install software, something that's even the default for new
> users you add.

If they don't have the super-user password, they can't install stuff?
Ric


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