what is a minimal ubuntu os?

**anonu** · January 23rd, 2013

Hello,

I am looking for a bare bone ubuntu OS version. I want nothing else other than my OS, and then i would like to get only the programs i want. the desktop i would like is cinnamon.

could you help how i can do this.

i downloaded ubuntu mini, but when i do sudo apt-add-repository ppa something something, it says command not found.

all help appreciated. also i had another q. is there a prg where in a terminal like window i can see what the scripts are being executed in real time and then can save the entire log to a text file.

thank you, thank you and cheers.

**howefield** · January 23rd, 2013

Originally Posted by anonu

i downloaded ubuntu mini, but when i do sudo apt-add-repository ppa something something, it says command not found.

try...

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa something something

of course substituting "ppa something something" with the real ppa you want to add.

**omeomi** · January 23rd, 2013

Originally Posted by anonu

also i had another q. is there a prg where in a terminal like window i can see what the scripts are being executed in real time and then can save the entire log to a text file.

You mean like top?

Code:

top -b -n1 > output.txt

**furything** · January 23rd, 2013

Try just installing ubuntu with xfce desktop (it's quite minimal) or lbuntu (never tried that one though)

Should also add you can install more than one desktop so if you installed xfce you could install the other desktop you want then uninstall xfce. You may find using the gui interface and synaptic package manager much easier than installing things via apt-get.