Hey Everyone !
I’ve just completed a preliminary version of the Raspbian Server Edition. I’ve stripped 277 packages from the default Raspbian Wheezy (2012-07-15) install. It ends up being around 400 megabytes in size. I’ve left some packages in there still like raspi-config, ntp, and ssh is still enabled.
You can grab the image file from
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I’ve also created a script so that you can turn the default install into what the image contains.
The script reads from a text file that contains a list of packages to be removed. If you want to make sure a package is not removed, then the script will suit you.
You can get this script from:
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A streamlined version of Raspbian with less software installed? Why don’t you call it Lessbian? 😉 Nice work, btw, I’ve looked through the list of packages removed by the script version and it looks like just the thing I’ll need to set up the second Pi I’ve got on order.
Haha. Should’ve thought of that 😛
Glad it will help. If you have any feedback, please, send it through !
pi@raspberrypi / $ sudo
-bash: sudo: command not found
Where to go from here…
you can either apt-get install sudo
or
su to switch to the root account
I can’t apt-get install sudo without root access
su prompts for a password and nothing I’ve tried has worked
Have you tried a blank password ?
blank, root and raspberry
Perhaps I should just use the script to go from the standard raspbian image instead of the image.
I just figured it would save some time to just use the image.
Or grab V2 of the image which has some improvements
Script not work.
sudo ./removepkgs.sh
./removepkgs.sh: Zeile 6: $1: Ambiguous redirection.
sorry, I fail at instructions. command needs to be
./removepkgs.sh pkgs.txt
mate – i too would like to respin raspbian to my will; just don’t know how to go about it. can you share the steps you need to take to do this?
I just downloaded raspbian, removed all the packages that I didn’t need, then repacked it into an img file with dd. Is there any particular part you need help with ?
the part where you dd from the SD card while it is in use
Grab a USB stick big enough, dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/mnt/yourusbdrive bs=1M
That should do it.
Hi, great work on the script but I have a recent issue. Latest rasbpian (9/25) i dd, apt-get upgrade, expand fs, apply the script, reboot. the rpi never comes back up. i dont have a monitor conected so I can’t see any info, will try that when im home but do you have any idea? thanks!
If you are using the script from this post, I would recommend using a script from a newer post. Also, what’s the output when you run the script ?