Remove unwated packages
Hi,
I just installed a debian minimum system and I am trying to reduce my installation size further. Right now I am at 284 MB and I would like to reduce it by atleast 40-50MBs. Here is the output of dpkg--get-selections: Code:
adduser install I would now further like to reduce the installation size by removing packages that are unecessary. All I need is to reduce to a basic text base system from which I can connect to Internt and use apt-get to install/remove packages and perform some basic admin functions. Thanks |
you could just use debian net install, and only install packages form the disk
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Majority of these packages are from netinstall only. Thanks |
I don't quite see a question in your post. Anyway, this will list the installed packages by size:
dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Installed-Size} ${Package}\n' | sort -n You could probably remove bison, openbsd-inetd, splashy, telnet, pcmcia-cs and pcmciautils if you don't have a laptop and replace exim with something lighter. Also you might not need both 3.3 and 4.1 gcc versions. Set up your hardware manually and get rid of discover. Do a "apt-get clean". It's a bit difficult really to say what you might not need. |
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Thanks |
Have you looked at the Debian-Live project ?
http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive the Debian-Live Etch image appears to be around 85 MB |
Debian minimal install is around 100MB using debbootstrap (at least sarge was around 110Mb if I remember, dunno for etch)
Going under is another level of tweaking, you can't remove packages like this, they have to be recompiled or replaced by alternatives. There is embedian project also. |
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Thanks a lot buddy... |
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