Ubuntu 14.04 image contains a lot of unneeded packages

Posted June 30, 2014

The Ubuntu 14.04 x32 image doesn’t seem to be cloud optimized. There’s a lot of extra cruft that shouldn’t be there (possibly because of the GUI version of wireshark)

The following commands help to clean up the image. apt-get --purge remove font* libx11* x11-* landscape-common w3m ntfs-3g ppp libxcl* apt-get --purge autoremove

I hope DigitalOcean will come with better default images that don’t contain all that cruft.

digitalocean.jj05

cramhead • November 11, 2014

Just quick warning on this one. If you’re actually running things like nginx it could also be removed. This would likely be a good approach on a bare system before configuration. For what ever reason nginx-full has dependencies on

libxcb1:amd64
libx11-data
libx11-6:amd64
fonts-dejavu-core
fontconfig-config
libfontconfig1:amd64
libxpm4:amd64
libgd3:amd64 So when removing all those redundant package, at least as part of a server goes, it remove nginx as well.

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halil.ozgur • August 6, 2014

Note that @digitalocean.jj05’s solution may remove nginx. For some reason nginx depends on a font* package and purging them after my upgrade from 12.04 removed nginx as well. I was using ppa:nginx/stable but AFAIK ppa’s are disabled during an upgrade anyway.

Andrew SB • June 30, 2014

Hi!

That certainly doesn’t seem right. I’ll escalate this to one of our engineers to investigate.

Thanks!

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