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Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system



On 2010-03-19 15:21, Mike Viau wrote:
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I was hoping to find a solution for a currently running Debian system rather then to create a bare bone baseline or image...


I did that once, for a little Debian-based router. Got it down to 250MB, even including Python and ssh. But that was many moons ago.

You'll just have to do your "dpkg -l" and start purging what you think are unnecessary packages. There will be obvious packages, semi-obvious packages, and why-the-heck-do-they-require-this? packages.

"Do you want to continue? [y/N]" is *definitely* your friend.

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