I'm planning to install some Ubuntu 10.04 desktops in a SOHO
environment. One of the things I usually do is uninstall strictly
everything that's not needed by users.
Since my users are not supposed to install or remove software on the
desktops, I thought I might as well remove every graphical frontend to
that, e. g. Synaptic, the Software Center, the Update Manager and the
likes. Installs and upgrades will only be performed by me, using
dpkg/apt-get via ssh.
Can anyone of you more familiar than me with these more or less
redundant interfaces give me a complete list of packages to uninstall in
that case?
Thanks,
Niki
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On 01/03/11 10:52, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to install some Ubuntu 10.04 desktops in a SOHO
> environment. One of the things I usually do is uninstall strictly
> everything that's not needed by users.
>
> Since my users are not supposed to install or remove software on the
> desktops, I thought I might as well remove every graphical frontend to
> that, e. g. Synaptic, the Software Center, the Update Manager and the
> likes. Installs and upgrades will only be performed by me, using
> dpkg/apt-get via ssh.
>
> Can anyone of you more familiar than me with these more or less
> redundant interfaces give me a complete list of packages to uninstall
> in that case?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Niki
>
You might remove synaptic and software-center packages, and Update
Manager will be removed automatically too. It will however remove
several other packages, most notably the ubuntu-desktop metapackage, so
check if you really want that...
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On 01/03/11 10:52, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to install some Ubuntu 10.04 desktops in a SOHO
> environment. One of the things I usually do is uninstall strictly
> everything that's not needed by users.
>
> Since my users are not supposed to install or remove software on the
> desktops, I thought I might as well remove every graphical frontend to
> that, e. g. Synaptic, the Software Center, the Update Manager and the
> likes. Installs and upgrades will only be performed by me, using
> dpkg/apt-get via ssh.
>
> Can anyone of you more familiar than me with these more or less
> redundant interfaces give me a complete list of packages to uninstall
> in that case?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Niki
>
I forgot to suggest a possibly better solution - simply disallow your
users to install software, something that's even the default for new
users you add.
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You might remove synaptic and software-center packages, and Update
Manager will be removed automatically too. It will however remove
several other packages, most notably the ubuntu-desktop metapackage, so
check if you really want that...
I gave that a try:
# apt-get autoremove synaptic software-center
... which did the trick and also uninstalled the Update Manager.
I don't mind if it uninstalls various metapackages.
Thanks & cheers from the sunny South of France,
Niki
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I forgot to suggest a possibly better solution - simply disallow your
users to install software, something that's even the default for new
users you add.
A german saying goes "Was ich nicht weiss, macht mich nicht heiss".
Which means something like: "What I don't know, doesn't even
unnerve/tempt me".
I'm sure at least half of my users will browse through the Software
Center sooner or later and then phone me on a Sunday at seven in the
morning and ask me why they have to type a password when they only tried
to install Flightgear/FrozenBubble/Whatever )
Cheers,
Niki
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On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:00 +0100, A. Kromic wrote:
> On 01/03/11 10:52, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm planning to install some Ubuntu 10.04 desktops in a SOHO
> > environment. One of the things I usually do is uninstall strictly
> > everything that's not needed by users.
> >
> > Since my users are not supposed to install or remove software on the
> > desktops, I thought I might as well remove every graphical frontend to
> > that, e. g. Synaptic, the Software Center, the Update Manager and the
> > likes. Installs and upgrades will only be performed by me, using
> > dpkg/apt-get via ssh.
> >
> > Can anyone of you more familiar than me with these more or less
> > redundant interfaces give me a complete list of packages to uninstall
> > in that case?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Niki
> >
>
> I forgot to suggest a possibly better solution - simply disallow your
> users to install software, something that's even the default for new
> users you add.
If they don't have the super-user password, they can't install stuff?
Ric
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On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:00 +0100, A. Kromic wrote:
>>
>> I forgot to suggest a possibly better solution - simply disallow your
>> users to install software, something that's even the default for new
>> users you add.
>
> If they don't have the super-user password, they can't install stuff?
In Ubuntu, that would be sudo-granted capabilities (root password not
required or relevant).
Just disallow the users sudo capabilities or even access, and the
problem is solved.
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Completely remove graphical package management interfaces?
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