[Lilug] Stripping down an Ubuntu Image?

[Kenneth Downs]

Justin Dearing wrote:
> Ken
>
> Start with removing open office audacity etc. Then remove anything
> that is a -devel package and a -doc package.
>   

Excellent starting point, thanks.

> Before you do that figure out how to make an unattended install script
> in ubuntu. Don't make this a manual chore to update.
>   

Lost me here.  Do you mean something other than the deb package?  Cuz 
what I'm talking about here is running the deb package in a vm, 
stripping it down, and then putting the VDI file up there on 
sourceforge.  So everything will be installed an ready to go.

> On 2/26/09, Kenneth Downs <ken at secdat.com> wrote:
>   
>> It's been proposed over on the Andromeda mailing list that we provide an
>> Ubuntu image with Andromeda all installed and ready to go.
>>
>> I'm figuring a Sun VirtualBox image would be best for that.
>>
>> Question is, an installed Ubuntu seems to take > 3G.  I'm sure that can
>> be compressed, but does anybody know what can be safely purged to shrink
>> that down?  Or can anybody point me in the right direction?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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>> Kenneth Downs
>> Secure Data Software
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