Removing ubuntu-base?

[Rami Kayyali]

How about if I reinstall ubuntu-base before upgrading? This should
make it all work, right?

Right now, I'm running Hoary (from Warty), and I removed ubuntu-base,
so whenever Hoary is released from beta, I'll probably just reinstall
ubuntu-base, upgrade, then remove everything I don't need, what do you
think?

Rami Kayyali


On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 21:56:46 -0500, Travis Newman
<panickedthumb at gmail.com> wrote:
> You WILL have problems if you try to upgrade to hoary. The switch from
> fam to gamin, xfree to xorg, won't work, and a lot of stuff will be
> broken.
> 
> But as has been said before, if you're not planning on upgrading
> there's no problem at all.
> 
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:56:54 -0800, Daniel Robitaille
> <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Ok, I figured it out. I extracted control files using dpkg-deb -e
> > > ubuntu-base_version.deb, and seems to me that all this package does is
> > > list dependencies so that you can install ubuntu-base and apt will
> > > install all its dependencies.
> > >
> > > Basically, it's safe to remove if you don't want postfix, dhcp, etc.
> > > This way, you'll drop what Ubuntu think is a base system, and you're
> > > on your own in installing packages.
> > >
> > > I hope I'm right, since I'm a bit new to Debian and Debian-based ditros.
> >
> > you are right.
> >
> > The only problem, and I'm sure it will bite some people in April
> > during the Warty to Hoary upgrades, is that if you remove ubuntu-base
> > and/or ubuntu-desktop then you could run into problems during an
> > upgrade from one version of Ubuntu to another, since without these
> > meta-packages, you will miss some packages during the upgrade.  But on
> > a running Warty system you are fine.
> >
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