If I understand your question, I think all you will have to do is
uncheck the desktop packages when you get to the screen that asks you to
select software. It will have other choices like print server, file
server, laptop tools, etc. The desktop apps will be checked by default,
uncheck that and it will do what you want. Unless you have an extremely
small hard drive, you don't have to worry about GUI components being
installed, you just don't want it to run the GUI at boot. A heck of a
lot of packages are going to have dependencies that require various X11
and gnome packages. But if you just tell it not to install the desktop
packages, you'll get a character interface after rebooting.
On 04/07/2015 01:08 AM, Joel Roth wrote:
John J. Boyer wrote:
When doing a custom install of debian, what options should be chosen (or
not) to avoid installing any GUI components. I also plan to not
install the acessibility components and to install brlttty when
finished.
Is this a good plan? Of course, some GUI components may be installed
when other packages are added.
Hi John,
One way to avoid cruft is to set the variables in
/etc/apt/apt.conf to install only minimum dependencies.
APT:Install-Recommends "0";
APT:Install-Suggests "0";
You might not be able to start with that, but it
could be done following a minimal install, before you
pull in higher-level apps.
HTH,
Joel
Thanks,
John
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