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Topic: Help on remaster from Hard drive, remove of applications....

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jdebay

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Posted: Mar. 27 2005,19:25

I have done searchs, I have read howto's but still need help in
removing applications.

I have remove some applications that apt-get remove does not show is installed.

I have been able to remove icon's from desktop and menu picks. But applications that were installed not by apt-get, it is very slow to remove the application.

Need how to do it?

?

Or a map of what can be removed.

I am trying to get a base system with very few applications installed. Save that.

Then add apps.

If the makers of DSL have a base iso that would help or what I can remove from /usr sub-directories

I have so far not removed any libraries. But it is very time consuming remove one application at a time.

Also installed aptitude per Knoppix site to remove apt-get apps.

Thanks in advance for any help...

noclobber

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Posted: Mar. 28 2005,21:39

I feel your pain, bro...

The short answer is that there is no easy way to remove any existing apps from an "off the shelf" version of DSL. Without the dpkg database - which doesn't come with DSL - there's no way of knowing app interdependencies, or what else might break after you delete something.

You'd probably be better off starting with a different Linux distro which is more "bare bones" than DSL.

FYI, this thread discusses a base install of Debian over a network starting with only three floppies: Debian Floppy Install

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