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Operating Systems Linux Debian bare bones Debian install Post 302577339 by cowLips on Monday 28th of November 2011 08:28:38 PM

11-28-2011

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bare bones Debian install

I have read into some of the complexity in the docs in Debian on the install procedure.
Is there any guiding light on what is required for a bare bones install.

I have read in maybe the wikipedia that the einstein behind Debian has put in place every thing imaginable for any particular Machine.
is that true, is the install real top heavy ?.

And i was wondering, after the install if there is any way to detect the programs that are not needed.
I do see that there is a un-install GUI be for thought put in place in other OS`s and i assume there is one in Debian.
I just like to know where i am going in the forest before i get there.

thanks
i am studying Linux and bash with YDL in a iBook G4 that is questionable as to wether it will boot the next time. graphics card is damaged and there seems to be some dependencies on the graphics card for ? i saw in a log file.
I plan to install Debian into a HP mini Notebook.
so the G4 is the learning lab.

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install-menu

install-menu(1) 					      Debian GNU/Linux manual						   install-menu(1)

NAME

       install-menu - Process a menu method and generate the menu files for a window manager or a menu-aware application.

DESCRIPTION

       update-menus(1) computes the list of menu entries and passes it in turn to the menu methods in /etc/menu-methods/. The task of a menu meth-
       ods is to generate menus for a specific window manager.	install-menu provides a generic and customizable way to do that. The documentation
       of the install-menu definition language is available in the Debian Menu manual, a local copy being available in /usr/share/doc/menu/html.

SYNOPSIS

       install-menu [-vh] [--remove] <menu-method>

       Read menu entries from stdin in update-menus --stdout format and generate menu files using the specified menu-method.

       Normally used in menu method scripts as #! /usr/bin/install-menu.

OPTIONS

       -h,--help
	      Show the help message and exit.

       --remove
	      Remove the menu files instead of generating them.

       -v,--verbose
	      Output messages about what the program is doing.

COPYING

       install-menu is distributed under the term of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

AUTHOR

       Written by Joost Witteveen <joostje@debian.org>.  Now maintained by Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>.

SEE ALSO

       update-menus(1), menufile(5), /usr/share/doc/menu/html

Debian Project							 28 November 2005						   install-menu(1)