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SabreWolfy

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 1,269

Minimum / essential requirements for a system

I did a netinstall a while ago (as follows):

Is this where I get the testing netinstall image?

Then after doing this:

Install the base system, don't select the graphic environment, select the laptop set if you have a laptop. Once you reboot, enable contrib and non-free

# apt-get update
# apt-get install install xorg xinit openbox obconf lxappearance consolekit dbus-x11 |terminal emulator of choice|
# reboot
$ xinit /usr/bin/openbox

Then install whatever you want and set up stuff.

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I installed GNOME 3, LXDE, scrotwm, pure OpenBox and a few others onto my Wheezy netbook. This is all working fine. I decided not to install KDE, but it was tempting

I'd like to start again and make another minimal Wheezy system by repeating what I did above, which gives me X, OpenBox and a terminal.

What else do I need for a minimal system? Installing desktop (meta) packages bring a whole of stuff along automatically (?), so I'm sticking with OpenBox for now. I need the following:

• Panel (tint2)

• Power Manager (xfce4-power-manager?)

• Network Manager (wicd?)

• Volume Manager (volumeicon?)

Looking through ~/.config/openbox/autostart, I guess I could add nitrogen, conky, thunar, synclient, xscreensaver, compton and the code for GNOME PolicyKit and Keyring.

Anything else for a basic system?

Last edited by SabreWolfy (2012-10-11 17:22:02)

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rizzeh

#! Member

Registered: 2011-01-10

Posts: 54

Re: Minimum / essential requirements for a system

These are handy when i having to use minimal system with 128Mb RAM:
file manager - pcmanfm
txt editor - leafpad, nano
image viewer/wallpaper - feh
torrent - rtorrent
web - elinks -g

el_koraco

#!/loony/bun

From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,646

Re: Minimum / essential requirements for a system

synclient gets installed with xorg, and I think Network Manager has PolKit as a dependency.

SabreWolfy

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 1,269

Re: Minimum / essential requirements for a system

For reference, a similar thread here from only a month ago. The thread derails quickly though. What I did get from it was that I should also install a login manager like slim or gdm.

Last edited by SabreWolfy (2012-10-12 20:30:37)

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joek

#! Junkie

Registered: 2011-09-06

Posts: 323

Re: Minimum / essential requirements for a system

*Goes to look in thread*
I never use a login manager, so...
If you are using Wheezy (possibly sid as well, but not squeeze as far as I know) there may be an issue with mounting external drives and consolekit, which seems to be what the person in that thread is talking about.
Having your xintitrc read:

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session

instead of

exec openbox-session

solved the problem for me, though...

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SabreWolfy

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 1,269

Re: Minimum / essential requirements for a system

^ Thanks, I'll bear that in mind when I get to that step

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unfugr

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2012-09-18

Posts: 30

Re: Minimum / essential requirements for a system

The first things I installed on my netinstall were pgpgpg so I could add the key for the crunchbang-repository  and a cli filemanager to find my way more easy around /etc/apt/ to configure my sources.list, apt.conf and preferences before installing anything else.
Then after having installed xorg & openbox & co. I just worked with it and when I encountered that I missed some functionality I went looking for an appropriate application...
Reading ~/.xsession-errors was a quite helpful thing for me to elaborate what things I were missing, too.