Re: minimal installation questions
Pepper Orlando wrote:
Hi, I'm new to Debian, I'm coming from the bloated world of RedHat.
Basiclly, I'm interested in using debian to run a very basic web surfing
machine. I would like to use a fanless VIA EPIA motherboard and keep a
very minimal install of Debian on a CompactFlash card interfaced via an
IDE-to-CF adapter.
I would like to know if it's even possible to make a very minimal Debian
+ XFree86 + Mozilla install. If it is, then how do I go about removing
certain unneeded packages that are installed by default? Right now my
test machine is running a base install of Sarge (I quit out of the
package chooser after the installer installed just the basics) plus
enough packages to make XFree86 and Mozilla work (I am using the generic
VESA driver for 1024x768, it seems to be fast enough). Even doing just
this seems to take up about 235 MB according to df -h. I'm guessing
there's far more installed than I really need.
Thanks in advance for any help with this matter.
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After doing a minimal install, do *not* run tasksel or anything;
instead, install aptitude ( `apt-get install aptitude` )
Find in the man page of aptitude how to configure it only to install
packages that are required as dependence for packages you need; It says,
-R, --without-recommends
Do not treat recommendations as dependencies when
installing new
packages (this overrides settings in
/etc/apt/apt.conf and
~/.aptitude/config).
This corresponds to the configuration option
Aptitude::Recom-
mends-Important
I have no experience in changing stuff in /etc/apt/apt.conf though
run `aptitude` and mark all in 'libs', 'oldlibs' and `interpreters` by
selecting that section (under 'installed') and hitting shift-M
Then do the installation of X; there is a package called
x-window-system-core ; install that, mozilla-browser, mozilla-psm,
mozilla-xft (for nice fonts!) and mozilla-mailnews (if you also want to
mail using mozilla), and your favorite window manager (say, windowmaker
or fluxbox, do *not* install gnome or kde those are HUGE) , you can
select them in the aptitude program, search by hitting /
That should be about it (I think)
HTH,
Joris
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