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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers GUI forwarding without desktop installed Post 302917437 by bakunin on Tuesday 16th of September 2014 03:56:30 PM
Old 09-16-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by achenle
True, but in my experience the bulk of the X install is the client tools and libraries anyway, so unless disk space is really tight you might as well install it all anyway and just set the runlevel to run a command-line login.
Yes and no. You may be right about the amount of disk space needed, but in my line of work every package you install creates additional work: you need to get, test and install updates, you might introduce dependencies - all said and done you introduce additional complexity to your system. This - and not the disk footprint, which, i give you that, is negligeable - is the reason why i would never install an unnecessary package onto a system.

Maybe we are just coming from different environments. My main work is with AIX systems, but in big data centers and every shop below several hundred LPARs is considered small in my business. Making such an amount of systems work with the minimum administrative work possible is different than making a single home server do something.

My colleagues from the Linux department regularly have interns. Usually they come with an untouchable confidence about their Linux skills - i have downloaded and set up my laptop with Ubuntu all on my own, there is nothing i can't do - and leave with the saddening knowledge that whatever they did with their home-PC was not professional Linux-administration at all.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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dh_auto_install

DH_AUTO_INSTALL(1)						     Debhelper							DH_AUTO_INSTALL(1)

NAME

       dh_auto_install - automatically runs make install or similar

SYNOPSIS

       dh_auto_install [buildsystemoptions] [debhelperoptions] [--params]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_auto_install is a debhelper program that tries to automatically install built files. It does so by running the appropriate command for
       the build system it detects the package uses. For example, if there's a Makefile and it contains a install target, then this is done by
       running make (or MAKE, if the environment variable is set). If there is a setup.py or Build.PL, it is used. Note that the Ant build system
       does not support installation, so dh_auto_install will not install files built using Ant.

       Unless --destdir option is specified, the files are installed into debian/package/ if there is only one binary package. In the multiple
       binary package case, the files are instead installed into debian/tmp/, and should be moved from there to the appropriate package build
       directory using dh_install(1).

       DESTDIR is used to tell make where to install the files.  If the Makefile was generated by MakeMaker from a Makefile.PL, it will
       automatically set PREFIX=/usr too, since such Makefiles need that.

       This is intended to work for about 90% of packages. If it doesn't work, or tries to use the wrong install target, you're encouraged to skip
       using dh_auto_install at all, and just run make install manually.

OPTIONS

       See "BUILD SYSTEM OPTIONS" in debhelper(7) for a list of common build system selection and control options.

       --destdir=directory
	   Install files into the specified directory. If this option is not specified, destination directory is determined automatically as
	   described in the "DESCRIPTION" section.

       -- params
	   Pass params to the program that is run, after the parameters that dh_auto_install usually passes.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

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