CentOS - Aug 2011 - setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

Hi all,

I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with
normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx,
ping, tracert, dig, iptables, etc.

Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of applications which
gets installed with CentOS 6 if every option is deselected in the
installer so that I can see what I can remove which isn't really
necessary once installed?



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on 8/9/2011 3:10 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with
> normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx,
> ping, tracert, dig, iptables, etc.
>
> Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of applications which
> gets installed with CentOS 6 if every option is deselected in the
> installer so that I can see what I can remove which isn't really
> necessary once installed?
>
>
>
I think they are creating a minimal install CD image, if they haven't
already
released it.

On Aug 9, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with
> normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx,
> ping, tracert, dig, iptables, etc.
> 
> Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of applications which
> gets installed with CentOS 6 if every option is deselected in the
> installer so that I can see what I can remove which isn't really
> necessary once installed?
----
do you mean as in /root/anaconda-ks.cfg ?

Craig

On 08/09/11 3:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of applications which
> gets installed with CentOS 6 if every option is deselected in the
> installer so that I can see what I can remove which isn't really
> necessary once installed?
rpm -qa

(after doing that minimal install)

"really isn't neccessary" is highly subjective, noone else can
make that
call for you.

-- 
john r pierce                            N 37, W 122
santa cruz ca                         mid-left coast

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com>
wrote:
>
> I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with
> normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx,
> ping, tracert, dig, iptables, etc.
>
> Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of applications which
> gets installed with CentOS 6 if every option is deselected in the
> installer so that I can see what I can remove which isn't really
> necessary once installed?
Kickstart minimal:
either
%packages --nobase
@Core
or
%packages
@Base

I'm not sure what's installed when you don't select anything in
Anaconda but if you have such an install you can compare the output of
"rpm -qa" with "yum groupinfo Core" and "yum groupinfo
Base".

From: Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>
> Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of applications which
> gets installed with CentOS 6 if every option is deselected in the
> installer so that I can see what I can remove which isn't really
> necessary once installed?
Maybe try something like:
? grep '<id>\|mandatory\|default'
/PATH/TO/REPO/6/os/x86_64/repodata/*comps.xml | sed 's/<[a-z/]*>//g;
s/<packagereq type=//g' | tr '>' ' '

JD