[Chester LUG] eeepc woes again

[Paul Williams]

I can remove stuff, but I'm cautious about exactly what I can get away with removing.  There are some progs that I cant uninstall using the Add / Remove software due to other progs needing them.  I could use synaptic or rm to get rid, but I'm cautious about breaking anything.

Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:38:16 +0100
From: e-mail at mcrilly.co.uk
To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Chester LUG] eeepc woes again

Try removing stuff with Synaptic, and not the GUI to apt-get.


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Paul Williams <wilp4a at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:


Ha HA!

Problem solved.  Got seriously fed up waiting for replies from about a half dozen forums over help with this one, so I decided that maybe the problem with the eeePC and Hardy would be easier to fix.


Now eeePC has XP on the 2g ssd and Hardy on the 4g Class 6 SDHC.

Does anyone know a quick way to remove all the crap that gets bundled with Ubuntu that I don't need.  Some suff can't be removed with Add-remove progs and I'm reluctant to do it with the package manager in case something I need gets removed by accident.


I'm looking to keep full functionality, but remove additional extras like ooo database and display software while keeping the spreadsheet and word processor. 


> From: r.downing at dl.ac.uk
> To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk

> Subject: Re: [Chester LUG] eeepc woes again
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:59:43 +0100
> 



> On Thursday 17 July 2008 13:15:31 Paul Williams wrote:
> > Hi Guys, got feisty installed to the SD card of my eeepc (and XP on the
> > ssd).
> >
> > Only issue is that I have no ethernet or wifi, so I can't tweek it much.

> >
> > any help?
> >
> > I want to fix the problem without installing another distro - had enough
> > trouble getting one on in the first place.
> >
> Hmm interesting that ethernet doesn't work. That is meant to work perfectly 

> well. The wireless is easily fixed by recompiling drivers with a small patch 
> applied. There is even an automated script that will customise ubuntu for 
> eeepcs. These of course require that you have some way of getting said patch 

> or script onto the machine.......
> 
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