[PLUG] Slackpkg...

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Dec 13 14:01:23 UTC 2016


On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Michael C. Robinson wrote:

> I'm running slackware 14.2 on a very simple server.  The box is only a
> Pentium 4, so I decidedly don't want X Windows and I want to save
> space.  I started out with slackware 14.1 and xfce I believe.  I am
> manually removing via pkgtool everything X11 that is obvious and a few
> other things, but manual is dangerous.  Is there a better way with
> slackpkg to catch those remaining libraries that can be removed safely
> to save even more space?

Michael,

   Run '/var/log/packages | grep X*' and you'll see a list of all X11
packages that are installed. Then you can decide which you want to remove.

   Are yuo running out of hard drice space? If not, leave them alone and run
your server from the consoles.

Rich



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