TaskSel should help you here; you want to go in there and remove the packages you do not need. If you know the name of the particular package you want to get rid of, you can also do apt-get remove packagename Matt <quote who="Alex Snow"> > It seems that debian decided to install *everything*. including all the > language environments etc. How do I get rid of this stuff? Sorry for > the stupid questions;I'm new to this.