During the installation, there is a choice to let you choose which desktop and whether or not install the standard system utilities
. See here for the screen shot and the packages included.
Personally I don't like to install many packages I don't need, so I ask here what is the consequences of not installing these utilities. Please in plain language what functionality I will lose or inconvenience I will get.
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Without installing the
standard system utilities
, you will get a working operating system but you will need most of theutilities
later.I have tested debian in a Virtualbox offline install without a GUI and without
standard system utilities
. The output ofapt list --installed > installed.txt
is here.From the installed OS i have configured
apt
because it is not fully working only the security update is enabled:then i have installed a GUI , here are the two steps that I execute:
1) To configure my
sources.list
i have comment out the following lines:Then adding:
2) Runing
tasksel
to install the Gui: i mounted the debian.iso to save the bandwidth , connecting to the internet then installing my desktop .Updating the package and everything work fine.
NB the
standard system utilities
isn't available" after runingtasksel
on the installed system.This task is available only during the installation, it contains the following packages:
It corresponds to the following command:
The following priority levels are recognized by the Debian package management tools.
required
important
standard