Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:45:11AM -0800, SpamHog wrote:
> I've been looking for a Custom Debian Distributions or package list or
> metapackage which would pull in plenty of CLI-only admin - rescue -
> network - security tools, a few key servers (file, ssh,, and little
> more), basic clients for communicating (http, irc, etc etc) many
> drivers, but no X.
> Does anybody keep such a "pure Debian CLI tools"
> metapackage or package list or CDD
> with such a selction of apps?
When I install, I do a minimal install (don't select any tasks, not even
"standard"), then set up aptitude. For my spare box (used both for
accessing the main box, but also as a reference box in case the main box
goes down), I install a fair bit. I generally include X in case there
are any pdf docs I need or if I need a graphical browser. For that
purpose, I include links2. Since I may want to print out more than
plain-text, I include apsfilter and gs-gpl in addition to lpr. I
include the docs for most things. I didn't include the tar doc package
since mc will handle it natively.
I don't create a metapackage. It doesn't take me long to go down my
usual list and select what I need.
I hope this helps.
Doug.
Here's the list but I'll remove the X
stuff from it. FYI, the list is created with
# aptitude search '~i!~M' (installed not automatically)
i adduser - Add and remove users and groups
i anacron - cron-like program that doesn't go by time
i apsfilter - Magic print filter with automatic file typ
i apt-doc - Documentation for APT
i apt-howto-en - example-based guide to APT (English)
i apt-utils - APT utility programs
i aptitude - terminal-based apt frontend
i aptitude-doc-en - English manual for aptitude, a terminal-ba
i bash - The GNU Bourne Again SHell
i bwm-ng - small and simple console-based bandwidth m
i cron - management of regular background processin
i debconf-english - small footprint English-only debconf
i debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents
i debian-reference-en - Debian system administration guide, Englis
i dnsmasq - A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP server
i doc-linux-html - Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in HTML format
i doc-linux-nonfree-html - Linux HOWTOs in HTML format (non-free)
i dosfstools - Utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT f
i ed - The classic unix line editor
i exim4 - metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) installa
i fdutils - Linux floppy utilities
i file - Determines file type using "magic" numbers
i grub - GRand Unified Bootloader
i grub-doc - Documentation for GRand Unified Bootloader
i gs-gpl - The GPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter
i gsfonts-x11 - Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11
i hwb - The Hardware Book
i icewm - wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window man
i iptables - administration tools for packet filtering
i less - Pager program similar to more
i libc6-i686 - GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 opti
i libpaper-utils - Library for handling paper characteristics
i links2 - Web browser running in both graphics and t
i linux-image-686 - Linux kernel image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PII
i logrotate - Log rotation utility
i lpr - BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system
i lrzsz - Tools for zmodem/xmodem/ymodem file transf
i lynx - Text-mode WWW Browser
i mailx - A simple mail user agent
i makepasswd - Generate and encrypt passwords
i man-db - The on-line manual pager
i manpages - Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux syste
i mc - midnight commander - a powerful file manag
i menu - generates programs menu for all menu-aware
i mime-support - MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap', and s
i minicom - friendly menu driven serial communication
i modconf - Device Driver Configuration
i mutt - text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG
i nano-tiny - free Pico clone with some new features - t
i netbase - Basic TCP/IP networking system
i ntp - Network Time Protocol daemon and utility p
i openssh-client - Secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh/rcp rep
i openssh-server - Secure shell server, an rshd replacement
i openssl - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and relat
i pdmenu - simple full screen menu program
i pinfo - An alternative info-file viewer
i ppp - Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon
i pppconfig - A text menu based utility for configuring
i procps - /proc file system utilities
i psmisc - Utilities that use the proc filesystem
i python - An interactive high-level object-oriented
i python-doc - Documentation for the high-level object-or
i python2.4 - An interactive high-level object-oriented
i resolvconf - nameserver information handler
i rsync - fast remote file copy program (like rcp)
i setserial - controls configuration of serial ports
i shorewall - Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall), a high-lev
i shorewall-doc - documentation for Shorewall firewall
i sysadmin-guide - The Linux System Administrators' Guide
i sysklogd - System Logging Daemon
i traceroute - traces the route taken by packets over a T
i usbutils - USB console utilities
i vim - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
i vim-doc - Vi IMproved - HTML documentation
i vim-tiny - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - compact
i vlock - Virtual Console locking program
i wget - retrieves files from the web
i whiptail - Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from s
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