[aklug] Re: changing Ubuntu schemes

Shane R. Spencer wrote:
> If you're looking to remove most of the desktop software the package
> management tools can help with that. I typically use debfoster (with
> task support on) for doing this.. however tasksel itself runs the
> following program to achieve this.
>
> Go to your first virtual terminal, log in, run:
>
> sudo tasksel -t remove ubuntu-desktop

Personally.. I take the output from the test (-t) and copy it into my
current command line and add '--purge' and '--auto-remove' to the end of
it to make things nice and pretty.

> If you like what you see, remote the -t option and run it again followed
> by: sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
>
> Then run:
>
> tasksel --list-tasks
>
> You can use this client install and remove tasks which define package
> sets. I believe one of tasks is called 'server'
>
> - Shane
>
> bryanm@acsalaska.net wrote:
>> Ubuntu geeks -- is there a bundle that can be downloaded (smaller
>> than a CD) that will change a desktop installation to server, or
>> vice versa?
>>
>> --
>> Bryan Medsker
>> bryanm@acsalaska.net
>>
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Received on Mon Jan 18 07:21:40 2010