Base Packages

2013-03-19 Thread Steve Pribyl
Is there a way to determine which base packages are installed during the 
initial install.

Thanks

Steve Pribyl



Re: Base Packages

2013-03-19 Thread Nick Holland

On 03/19/2013 12:00 PM, Steve Pribyl wrote:

Is there a way to determine which base packages are installed during the 
initial install.

Thanks

Steve Pribyl



if the machine boots, baseXX.tgz, etcXX.tgz, bsd*
if man man works, manXX.tgz
if gcc works, compXX.tgz
if tetris works, gameXX.tgz

if /usr/X11R6 exists, xbaseXX.tgz
if X works (or at least tries) the rest of x* was installed.
(that's all off the top of my head...  errors possible.  But then, as 
one could easily tar tzf ... and see files in each tar set, I'm not 
going to waste too much time on this)


That's assuming a healthy install thought process.  Nothing stops you 
from installing xshareXX.tgz without the rest of X, but it would be silly.


Really, if you care about it, just (re)install everything. It will still 
be smaller than almost anything else.


Nick.