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#5 Re: What is the 'safest' way to Remove X11 Posted by Steve (82.41.xx.xx) on Wed 21 Sep 2005 at 10:55 Remove the higher level packages (eg. xterm, rxtrm, x-window-system) until you get errors - then stop to see what you need to keep. You will almost certainly need to keep xlibs, and a few other graphical libraries because console applications use them - eg the ImageMagick command line tools. You'll need xbase-clients installed if ever you want to do X11 forwarding via SSH. Otherwise only you will know what you need. On my ssh-only server I see I have: root@skx2:~# dpkg --list |grep 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 ii libdps1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Display PostScript (DPS) client library ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Session Management library ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System protocol client library ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous extension libr ii libxft1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 FreeType-based font drawing library for X (v ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Input extension library ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous utility librar ii libxmuu1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 lightweight X Window System miscellaneous ut ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System printing extension library ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X pixmap library ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Resize, Rotate and Reflectio ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii libxtrap6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System protocol-trapping extension ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System event recording and testing pi xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configuration dat ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System client data There are other graphical libraries installed such as libpng, libjpeg too. I guess I'd question why you want to do this too - do you want to save disk space? Or just feel better knowing you don't have more software installed than you need? Steve --
Remove the higher level packages (eg. xterm, rxtrm, x-window-system) until you get errors - then stop to see what you need to keep.
You will almost certainly need to keep xlibs, and a few other graphical libraries because console applications use them - eg the ImageMagick command line tools.
You'll need xbase-clients installed if ever you want to do X11 forwarding via SSH.
Otherwise only you will know what you need. On my ssh-only server I see I have:
root@skx2:~# dpkg --list |grep 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 ii libdps1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Display PostScript (DPS) client library ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Session Management library ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System protocol client library ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous extension libr ii libxft1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 FreeType-based font drawing library for X (v ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Input extension library ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous utility librar ii libxmuu1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 lightweight X Window System miscellaneous ut ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System printing extension library ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X pixmap library ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Resize, Rotate and Reflectio ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii libxtrap6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System protocol-trapping extension ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System event recording and testing pi xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configuration dat ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System client data
There are other graphical libraries installed such as libpng, libjpeg too.
I guess I'd question why you want to do this too - do you want to save disk space? Or just feel better knowing you don't have more software installed than you need?
Steve --
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