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_h_
March 17th, 2010, 08:50 PM
In reference with Top 10: Your Top Ten Packages To Install (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35208), curious to see what top 10 packages people uninstall.

1. CUPS (no printer)
2. Samba (see CUPS)
3. Remote Desktop / Remote Desktop Viewer
4. Terminal Server Client
5. OpenOffice
6. Bluetooth support
7. Default prepacked games
8. Rhythmbox
9. Brasero
10. Tomboy

Muppeteer
March 17th, 2010, 08:58 PM
1. Ubuntu.

Install Arch and install packages as required :D

gnupipe
March 17th, 2010, 08:59 PM
In reference with Top 10: Your Top Ten Packages To Install (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35208), curious to see what top 10 packages people uninstall.

1. CUPS (no printer)
2. Samba (see CUPS)
3. Remote Desktop / Remote Desktop Viewer
4. Terminal Server Client
5. OpenOffice
6. Bluetooth support
7. Default prepacked games
8. Rhythmbox
9. Brasero
10. Tomboy

Why you remove OpenOffice?

gymophett
March 17th, 2010, 08:59 PM
Everything I uninstall I usually just replace with something else.
But all I uninstall is:

Rhythmbox then install Banshee
Empathy then install Pidgin

I pretty much literally use everything else.

gnupipe
March 17th, 2010, 09:00 PM
1. Ubuntu.

Install Arch and install packages as required :D

lol

gymophett
March 17th, 2010, 09:03 PM
1. Ubuntu.

Install Arch and install packages as required :D

BOOOO, you *****. :D

_h_
March 17th, 2010, 09:04 PM
Why you remove OpenOffice?

Because I have no use for it?

gnupipe
March 17th, 2010, 09:08 PM
Because I have no use for it?

There was no reason mentioned (like no printer) so I asked.

_h_
March 17th, 2010, 09:11 PM
There was no reason mentioned (like no printer) so I asked.

Oh ok..

VastOne
March 17th, 2010, 09:12 PM
Because I have no use for it?

Do you use an alternative?

_h_
March 17th, 2010, 09:17 PM
Do you use an alternative?

No, because I don't require that sort of software to do my work.

forrestcupp
March 17th, 2010, 09:32 PM
The entire install along with all the main things I install afterward doesn't take up a very big percentage of my hard drive. So I don't waste my time trying to figure out things to uninstall.

CharlesA
March 17th, 2010, 09:35 PM
The entire install along with all the main things I install afterward doesn't take up a very big percentage of my hard drive. So I don't waste my time trying to figure out things to uninstall.

This is what I do too, but only on my desktop/netbook. On server, I just install the server version and install the stuff I use. :P

blackmail
March 17th, 2010, 09:36 PM
1. Ubuntu.

Install Arch and install packages as required :D

This was kinda rude...
But i am also looking forward to try Slackware :evil:](*,)

-jay-
March 17th, 2010, 09:36 PM
In reference with Top 10: Your Top Ten Packages To Install (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35208), curious to see what top 10 packages people uninstall.

1. CUPS (no printer)
2. Samba (see CUPS)
3. Remote Desktop / Remote Desktop Viewer
4. Terminal Server Client
5. OpenOffice
6. Bluetooth support
7. Default prepacked games
8. Rhythmbox
9. Brasero
10. Tomboy

since i dual boot because of printer/scanner issues i remove everything but 8

samalex
March 17th, 2010, 10:00 PM
Why you remove OpenOffice?

I was about to ask the same thing ...

julianb
March 17th, 2010, 10:01 PM
Install Arch and install packages as required

Why install arch when you could install microcore (or tinycore) instead?

scottuss
March 17th, 2010, 10:10 PM
1. Ubuntu.

Install Arch and install packages as required :D

Until it drags in loads of "dependencies"

sisco311
March 17th, 2010, 10:13 PM
Nothing, I use debootstrap to install a basic Ubuntu system, then ubuntu-minimal, ubuntu-standard, gnome-core and so on...

DownTown22
March 17th, 2010, 11:23 PM
1. Tomboy - not needed
2. Rhythmbox - replace with Banshee
3. Empathy - replace with Pidgin

And that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

beatme101
March 17th, 2010, 11:27 PM
I would remove Firefox but as far as I know you can't remove it without removing ubuntu-desktop, crippling upgrades to a new version of Ubuntu.

_h_
March 17th, 2010, 11:30 PM
I would remove Firefox but as far as I know you can't remove it without removing ubuntu-desktop, crippling upgrades to a new version of Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get remove firefox* produces this list of packages to get removed:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
firefox firefox-3.5 firefox-3.5-branding firefox-3.5-gnome-support
firefox-gnome-support ubufox

Doesn't look like it would remove ubuntu-desktop.

beatme101
March 17th, 2010, 11:38 PM
sudo apt-get remove firefox* produces this list of packages to get removed:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
firefox firefox-3.5 firefox-3.5-branding firefox-3.5-gnome-support
firefox-gnome-support ubufox

Doesn't look like it would remove ubuntu-desktop.

Well that's interesting, I recall being told I'd need to remove ubuntu-desktop as firefox is supposed to be a dependency of ubuntu-desktop.

Searching again, I'm seeing claims that "every time an update comes through it will get reinstalled". - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=968844

samjh
March 18th, 2010, 12:32 AM
1. Evolution (I prefer Thunderbird)
2. F-spot (no need for it)
3. Tomboy (no need for it)
4. Rhythmbox (no need for it)
5. Totem (prefer VLC)
6. Gnome-games (don't play them, except chess)

That's pretty much it.

krendar
March 18th, 2010, 04:57 AM
How about "Computer Janitor"? (not even sure what its package name is)

Useless piece of ****. It thinks its a good idea I uninstall songbird for some reason.

ctrlmd
March 18th, 2010, 05:06 AM
Rhythmbox then install Banshee
Empathy then install emesene
evince then install okular
transmission then install deluge
games

Kenny_Strawn
March 18th, 2010, 06:11 AM
sudo apt-get remove firefox* produces this list of packages to get removed:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
firefox firefox-3.5 firefox-3.5-branding firefox-3.5-gnome-support
firefox-gnome-support ubufox

Doesn't look like it would remove ubuntu-desktop.

Yes, but "sudo apt-get remove" doesn't remove dependencies. "sudo apt-get autoremove" is what does, and as you use that on Firefox, you'll find that ubuntu-desktop is a dependency.

mcduck
March 18th, 2010, 09:27 AM
Yes, but "sudo apt-get remove" doesn't remove dependencies. "sudo apt-get autoremove" is what does, and as you use that on Firefox, you'll find that ubuntu-desktop is a dependency.

You are thinking about this in the wrong way. ;)

If ubuntu-desktop would depend on firefox, then removing Firefox would remove ubuntu-desktop as well (otherwise the dependencies for ubuntu-desktop would be broken)

If Firefox installs some extra package as it's dependency, then removing Firefox (with "apt-get remove") will not uninstall that package (unless that package itself has Firefox marked as it's dependency)

Firefox doesn't depend on ubutnu-desktop (you can run Firefx without any problems on any desktop or window manager), but Ubuntu desktop might very well depend on Firefox (the default Ubuntu desktop setup uses Firefox as it's browser). Dependencies are one-way thing. For example you can have Qt4 installed without having KDE4, but you can't have KDE4 without having Qt4.

edit: What comes to the original point of this thread, I don't uninstall anything. I'm not that short on disk space. :D

Dragonbite
March 18th, 2010, 02:06 PM
Why not just use Debian, Fedora or openSUSE via DVD and install what you want instead of removing what you don't want?

slakkie
March 18th, 2010, 02:22 PM
In reference with Top 10: Your Top Ten Packages To Install (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35208), curious to see what top 10 packages people uninstall.

1. CUPS (no printer)
2. Samba (see CUPS)
3. Remote Desktop / Remote Desktop Viewer
4. Terminal Server Client
5. OpenOffice
6. Bluetooth support
7. Default prepacked games
8. Rhythmbox
9. Brasero
10. Tomboy

minimal install CD ftw!

Giant Speck
March 18th, 2010, 02:26 PM
In before mono.

Psumi
March 18th, 2010, 02:30 PM
Default Ubuntu Install:

1. empathy
2. evolution
3. ALL of the games that are installed (including the gnome-games metapackage.)
4. openoffice.org (unless I need to write something up, then I reinstall writer.)
5. rhythmbox
6. f-spot
7. transmission (replace with deluge.)
8. Remote Desktop Stuff
9. compiz, compiz-core, etc.
10. ubufox
11. ubuntuone-client

Default Xubuntu Install:

1. GDM (and install slim, or drop down to use startx.)
2. ALL GNOME DEPENDENCIES (If Not possible, at least remove dependencies on Gconf.) This means that I have to remove gksu, synaptic, etc. And Install wicd, etc.
3. Remove Pidgin (Install Ayttm, doesn't work as of 9.10, wait for 10.04 to use it.)
4. pulseaudio, gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio and install alsa-utils
5. Anything mentioned in Ubuntu default install list above.
6. totem, and install parole (Parole may be included by default in Lucid+1.)
7. xsplash (keep usplash if using slim. Otherwise, remove usplash as well.)

Default Kubuntu Install:

I don't like KDE.