On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:45:11AM -0800, SpamHog wrote: > I've been looking for a Custom Debian Distributions or package list or > metapackage which would pull in plenty of CLI-only admin - rescue - > network - security tools, a few key servers (file, ssh,, and little > more), basic clients for communicating (http, irc, etc etc) many > drivers, but no X. > Does anybody keep such a "pure Debian CLI tools" > metapackage or package list or CDD > with such a selction of apps? When I install, I do a minimal install (don't select any tasks, not even "standard"), then set up aptitude. For my spare box (used both for accessing the main box, but also as a reference box in case the main box goes down), I install a fair bit. I generally include X in case there are any pdf docs I need or if I need a graphical browser. For that purpose, I include links2. Since I may want to print out more than plain-text, I include apsfilter and gs-gpl in addition to lpr. I include the docs for most things. I didn't include the tar doc package since mc will handle it natively.
I don't create a metapackage. It doesn't take me long to go down my usual list and select what I need. I hope this helps. Doug. Here's the list but I'll remove the X stuff from it. FYI, the list is created with # aptitude search '~i!~M' (installed not automatically) i adduser - Add and remove users and groups i anacron - cron-like program that doesn't go by time i apsfilter - Magic print filter with automatic file typ i apt-doc - Documentation for APT i apt-howto-en - example-based guide to APT (English) i apt-utils - APT utility programs i aptitude - terminal-based apt frontend i aptitude-doc-en - English manual for aptitude, a terminal-ba i bash - The GNU Bourne Again SHell i bwm-ng - small and simple console-based bandwidth m i cron - management of regular background processin i debconf-english - small footprint English-only debconf i debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents i debian-reference-en - Debian system administration guide, Englis i dnsmasq - A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP server i doc-linux-html - Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in HTML format i doc-linux-nonfree-html - Linux HOWTOs in HTML format (non-free) i dosfstools - Utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT f i ed - The classic unix line editor i exim4 - metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) installa i fdutils - Linux floppy utilities i file - Determines file type using "magic" numbers i grub - GRand Unified Bootloader i grub-doc - Documentation for GRand Unified Bootloader i gs-gpl - The GPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter i gsfonts-x11 - Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11 i hwb - The Hardware Book i icewm - wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window man i iptables - administration tools for packet filtering i less - Pager program similar to more i libc6-i686 - GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 opti i libpaper-utils - Library for handling paper characteristics i links2 - Web browser running in both graphics and t i linux-image-686 - Linux kernel image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PII i logrotate - Log rotation utility i lpr - BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system i lrzsz - Tools for zmodem/xmodem/ymodem file transf i lynx - Text-mode WWW Browser i mailx - A simple mail user agent i makepasswd - Generate and encrypt passwords i man-db - The on-line manual pager i manpages - Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux syste i mc - midnight commander - a powerful file manag i menu - generates programs menu for all menu-aware i mime-support - MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap', and s i minicom - friendly menu driven serial communication i modconf - Device Driver Configuration i mutt - text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG i nano-tiny - free Pico clone with some new features - t i netbase - Basic TCP/IP networking system i ntp - Network Time Protocol daemon and utility p i openssh-client - Secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh/rcp rep i openssh-server - Secure shell server, an rshd replacement i openssl - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and relat i pdmenu - simple full screen menu program i pinfo - An alternative info-file viewer i ppp - Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon i pppconfig - A text menu based utility for configuring i procps - /proc file system utilities i psmisc - Utilities that use the proc filesystem i python - An interactive high-level object-oriented i python-doc - Documentation for the high-level object-or i python2.4 - An interactive high-level object-oriented i resolvconf - nameserver information handler i rsync - fast remote file copy program (like rcp) i setserial - controls configuration of serial ports i shorewall - Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall), a high-lev i shorewall-doc - documentation for Shorewall firewall i sysadmin-guide - The Linux System Administrators' Guide i sysklogd - System Logging Daemon i traceroute - traces the route taken by packets over a T i usbutils - USB console utilities i vim - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor i vim-doc - Vi IMproved - HTML documentation i vim-tiny - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - compact i vlock - Virtual Console locking program i wget - retrieves files from the web i whiptail - Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from s -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]