<font face="courier new,monospace">You may install Ubuntu Server version. It's text mode default(with no X server installed). and if you have installed other version of Ubuntu and do not want to reinstall, just keep it, you do not have to remove the X-server and something others.<br>
</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">you can start into text mode by change the grub file.<br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">vim /etc/default/grub #you can use some others instead of vim</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">look at this line</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">and replace "splash" with text</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">if you really want to remove ubuntu-desktop. It may not have a good way for purge remove.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">apt-get purge *xorg* </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I've tried this command(similar) before, but I don't think it is a purge remove.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">programs in X mode will not be removed, but they could not start anymore.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Harry Putnam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:reader@newsguy.com">reader@newsguy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I've attempted to make an ubuntu install an all text console machine<br>
by removing as much of xorg as seemed to need it.<br>
<br>
Also wondering if anyone knows, if in the circumstance of X-less<br>
machine it would be safe to remove all pkgs with x11 in there name.<br>
<br>
(I've inlined a list of those remaining pkgs at the end)<br>
<br>
I may do some developement but not for X related software. I just<br>
want to make sure that if I remove all those x11 named pkgs, I won't<br>
suddenly be missing important tools and libraries I might need even in<br>
X-less machine environment.<br>
<br>
aptitude search x11 |grep ^i<br>
<br>
i brltty-x11 - Access software for a blind person using a<br>
i dbus-x11 - simple interprocess messaging system (X11<br>
i libx11-6 - X11 client-side library<br>
i libx11-data - X11 client-side library<br>
i libx11-dev - X11 client-side library (development heade<br>
i libx11-xcb1 - Xlib/XCB interface library<br>
i pulseaudio-module-x11 - X11 module for PulseAudio sound server<br>
i x11-apps - X applications<br>
i x11-common - X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure<br>
i x11-session-utils - X session utilities<br>
i x11-utils - X11 utilities<br>
i x11-xfs-utils - X font server utilities<br>
i x11-xkb-utils - X11 XKB utilities<br>
i x11-xserver-utils - X server utilities<br>
i A x11proto-core-dev - X11 core wire protocol and auxiliary heade<br>
i A x11proto-input-dev - X11 Input extension wire protocol<br>
i A x11proto-kb-dev - X11 XKB extension wire protocol<br>
i A x11proto-xext-dev - X11 various extension wire protocol<br>
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