On Thursday 05 May 2011 09:12:47 am Andrew Wood wrote: > Whats the best way to go about making a custom installation of Debian > which I can then install onto multiple machines without having to go > through and manually add extra packages and remove certain default > packges from each machine? > > For certain things like removing OpenOffice and replacing it with > LibreOffice this approach works but is time consuming. For other > packages it just results in disaster, for example Ive tried removing > the empathy package and have inadvertently removed the entire OS. > > How come the packages have dependencies like this, surely removing an IM > client shouldnt also trigger removal of everything else.
I use 'apt-cache depends or rdepends' to see whats what with dependencies. Not installing a desktop environment package, ie: 'gnome-desktop-environment' would be a good start to customizing a DE. Using gtk versions of apps instead of gnome version helps, though it seems the trend is to have monolithic DE's. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105051004.04785.gomadtr...@gci.net
