Minstall alternative for Debian Wheezy

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• matthewvz Member

  February 2014

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

  February 2014

  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
• petris Member

  February 2014

  Why not just uninstall the packages you don't want?
• 5n1p Member

  February 2014

  https://github.com/Xeoncross/lowendscript I used this

  Thanked by 1netomx
• catalystium Member

  February 2014

  Could try http://tuxlite.com/
• haphan Member

  February 2014

  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.
• haphan Member

  February 2014

  5n1p said: https://github.com/Xeoncross/lowendscript I used this

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

  catalystium said: Could try http://tuxlite.com/

  Tuxlite has no feature to remove superfluous packages.
• MrObvious Member

  February 2014

  https://github.com/maxexcloo/Minstall/tree/master
• BuyCPanel_Alex Member

  February 2014

  arch linux!
• TwoDub Member

  February 2014

  @MrObvious said:
  https://github.com/maxexcloo/Minstall/tree/master

  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.