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Karmic "minimal" install pulls in tons of rubbish

Asked by zorpox

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8054397

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"I'm trying to install a minimal Karmic base system with the netboot CD... Problem is, even when I select no tasks whatsoever, it decides to pull in more than 120 extra packages including Gnome, OpenOffice, and OpenJDK - basically the whole Ubuntu/Gnome package. I've tried using the "manual package selection" option, but that causes the installer to bug out claiming that it can't install x11-common... Help?"[/Quote]

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This question was originally filed as bug #442872.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Did you select the ubuntu-desktop option? This is normal if you did.

Did you MD5 test the ISO to make sure it was ok? Bad disks will cause issues.

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#3

The netboot CD is not used for minimal installations. It it used for people who don't have a cd drive. If you want a minimal install like the Jaunty mini.iso you will have to wait for them to release it or download the server edition of karmic and build it that way.

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zorpox (nononinono) said : 		#4

This is not about the netboot method, but explicitly about the "minimal"-version (here:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD). During installation, you get to select which packages are to be installed, if you select none (i.e. just want the minimal system), you get it, but also some completely unnecessary additionals (like open-office.org without a desktop environment).

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zorpox (nononinono) said : 		#5

Oh, I just see, that I originally wrote "netboot CD". This is wrong. I meant the minimal cd.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Didn't know the pure minimum install openoffice, I thought it installed kernel + modules + bootloader + CLI tools.

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zorpox (nononinono) said : 		#7

Yeah, that's what I expected, too. And if you install via the alternate install cd, that's what you get. Not with the minimal cd, though. Just wanted to report this.