SBN - Baseline Server Notes
Contents
Suggestions for prep
Eliminating Extraneous Stuff
There's an awful lot of stuff installed by default with Mint that you'll probably never use (or even know exists...) on a desktop install.
On a server, moreso...
For a full list of installed packages:
apt list --installed
Here's my (likely incomplete) list for Mint 19.2:
- brltty
- dcraw
- espeak
- gimp
- gnome-calendar
- hexchat
- ideviceinstaller
- imagemagick
inxi- libreoffice
- mobile-broadband-provider-info
- modemmanager
- nvidia-prime-applet
plymouth(seems to want to remove cinnamon with it...)pulseaudio(seems to want to remove cinnamon with it...)- redshift
- rhythmbox
- simple-scan
streamer(seems to want to remove cinnamon with it...)- thunderbird
- tomboy
- transmission
- ure (don't add * to this one...)
- xplayer
To find out what a particular package actually is, you can use:
apt show PACKAGENAME
To get rid of a package:
apt remove PACKAGENAME*
My minimum one-liner:
apt remove brltty* dcraw* espeak* gimp* gnome-calendar* hexchat* ideviceinstaller* imagemagick* libreoffice* mobile-broadband-provider-info* modemmanager* nvidia-prime-applet* redshift* rhythmbox* simple-scan* thunderbird* tomboy* transmission* ure xplayer*
I have ABSOLUTELY no doubt there's still a shitload of stuff that could be profitably removed.
Avoiding annoying things later
After you get the server built (Heck... as soon as the OS is installed even...), it's a rather good idea to make sure everything is up-to-date:
Remote Access
Install & enable sshd
sudo apt install openssh-server
Note: When you try to ssh into a machine that has moved you'll probably see errors like: "Warning: the ECDSA host key for 'foobar' differs from the key for the IP address '192.168.0.66'"
ssh-keygen -R 192.168.0.66
Will erase that address from the known-hosts file and allow you to start clean
Remote Desktop Protocol
- Connect to Mint 18.3 remote desktop (discussion on linuxmint forums)
- xRDP - How to install on Linux Mint
- SEARCH: linux rdp compatible wm
