Re: new install: configuring ethernet strangeness

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

I did not get that tasksel at all, at the end of the install I had 12
choices, 11 was ssh server and 12 was standard system components and
by mistake I chose 12.  I cannot use the gui, I need speech to read
the screen and I don't want all that bloat running on a voip server.
What if I just put a stanza in /etc/network/interfaces and get rid of
network manager?

On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:04:47 -0400,
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 04:21:35AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > Hi.  I just installed Debian Bullseye on a refurbished computer which
> > I am going to use as a voip server.  Now, due to my ignorance, at the
> > very end of the install, I selected to use #12 which said standard
> > system items.
> > 
> > Well, to my horror, I got gnome with all its dependencies.  I ran
> > apt-get and purged all the gnome items.  However, my outgoing
> > connection instead of being in /etc/network/interfaces is now managed
> > by network-manager.  I don't want to use the gui, but there seems to
> > be no good way to configure the connection, should I need to do so.
> > /etc/systemd/network is  empty.
> > 
> > So, how can I either get back to /etc/network/interfaces or somehow
> > manage the existing connection which is buried in
> > /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/  and is readable, but I could
> > never change it.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > How do
> > you spend it?
> > 
> >          John Covici wb2una
> >          covici@ccs.covici.com
> >
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> I find that nmtui - the text interface is quite useful. It is persistent - 
> configuration will stick around. 
> 
> For anybody else: if you really don't want a GUI at all: if you deselect
> both GNOME and Debian desktop components in the tasksel step of the Debian
> installer then you should get no GUI components. If you then explicitly
> select standard install components lower down in tasksel, you will get
> some X Windows libraries but you will end up with no GUI and no desktop
> environment as far as I recollect. It's necessary to uncheck both the 
> Debian desktop environment AND the default of GNOME which is selected.
> 
> All the very best, as ever,
> 
> Andy Cater 
> 

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici wb2una
         covici@ccs.covici.com