[Haifux] UBUNTU instalation

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir at cohens.org.il
Wed Sep 10 21:20:23 MSD 2008


On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:23:38AM +0300, Ohad Lutzky wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Dave Roi <davidroi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Note that if you use these mass installation methods, ALL packages will be
> > marked as manually installed (as opposed to most of them being
> > dependencies).
> > The result of this is that if you later choose to uninstall a package, it
> > won't uninstall it's dependencies (using aptitude or apt-get autoremove).
> 
> For this exact reason, I recommend against any of those solutions
> (including the original one). Just save a list of packages you want
> (I'll be very surprised if there are more than 50) and apt-get install
> all of them. You'll want to be keeping them all at the latest version
> for your release of choice anyway.

Or, in the preseed file.

Not exactly sure about the Ubuntu installer. But in the Debian
installer: 

  http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en#preseed-pkgsel

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