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Minstall alternative for Debian Wheezy
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Minstall alternative for Debian Wheezy

haphanhaphan Member
edited February 2014 in General

I've been using this https://github.com/maxexcloo/Minstall for Debian Squeeze

Do we have any alternative or forked Minstall that supports Debian Wheezy?

Comments

  • matthewvzmatthewvz Member, Host Rep

    I've been using it just fine on Debian Wheezy with no issues.

  • is it working for wheezy? I've tried it at debian 7, but after reboot it just went to kernel panic. I'm using kvm

  • Why not just uninstall the packages you don't want?

  • matthewvz said: I've been using it just fine on Debian Wheezy with no issues.

    I don't think so. I encountered handful of bugs on Wheezy

    ErawanArifNugroho said: is it working for wheezy? I've tried it at debian 7, but after reboot it just went to kernel panic. I'm using kvm

    Same here. Not working on openvz also.

  • Lowendscript does not detect and remove all non-critical packages. Minstall does it.

    Tuxlite has no feature to remove superfluous packages.

  • arch linux!

  • This, but the script as it is in the master did not work for me (appears to do nothing).

    I ended up looking through the script in the master branch and listed out the commands required to make it work. The following commands worked for me, but I ONLY tested on OpenVZ:

    Commands mostly taken from here, all credit goes to maxexcloo for the below commands.

    1. Download the essential/required packages (here). Save/rename this as "base". I compiled this off a KVM minimal install, and it will throw some warnings that can be ignored (not all packages will be found on OpenVZ).

    2. I ran only the following commands (Note: I did NOT run apt-get update after a fresh install, seems to cause some problems):

      echo -n > /var/lib/apt/extended_states
      apt-get clean -qq
      
      apt-get install dialog
      # Clear DPKG Package Selections
      dpkg --clear-selections
      # Set Package Selections
      dpkg --set-selections < base
      # Get Selections & Set To Purge
      dpkg --get-selections | sed -e 's/deinstall/purge/' > /tmp/dpkg
      # Set Package Selections
      dpkg --set-selections < /tmp/dpkg
      # Update DPKG
      apt-get dselect-upgrade -y -qq
      # Upgrade Any Outdated Packages
      apt-get upgrade -y -qq
      #I lost the ability to shutdown/reboot, so I had to install upstart:
      apt-get install upstart
      
    3. Make sure you apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade. Be sure upstart is still installed after if you need it.

    4. Sendmail errors out, but there might be a possible solution here

    I really hope that he finishes this script, because the above is messy and not perfect. There might be problems with the above, I do not have a VPS that I can wipe to test this with at the moment.

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