To remove rust, seamonkey and thunderbird from a slackware distribution (they have already got installed), will following command work?

Or will I need to remove some other packages with above also?

I think the package name is mozilla-thunderbird. Otherwise, that should work, as would:

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Ok thanks.

And for upgrading such systems, I should only use commands "slackpkg update" and "slackpkg upgrade" and not "slackpkg install-new" and "slackpkg upgrade-all". Is that correct?

"slackpkg upgrade" is used to upgrade a list of individual packages given on the command line as such it is too slow for upgrading the whole system. The preferred method is to use "slackpkg upgrade-all" in combination with a blacklist which will ignore installing/upgrading/removing of packages listed in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist.

There is an explaination how to edit the blacklist at the beginning of the file. Basically you would want.

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e/
kde/
t/
y/

kernel-source
rust
seamonkey
mozilla-thunderbird
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@ethelack : Very clearly explained. Thanks.

Another related question: How can I remove full package groups, e.g. e/ t/ y/, from an installed Slackware system?

etc.

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Wow! That's really easy. This is the beauty of Slackware!

If you are going for a stripped down install, you can get away with only picking a/ ap/ d/ l/ k/ n/ package series during setup. This will give you closest thing to a minimal install, without having to know the entire dependency chain, and retaining system functionality at the command line.

Then you can easily do a "slackpkg install x && slackpkg install xfce" and you will have a very basic xfce desktop.

Following that, you can run slackpkg again and cherry pick the applications you want from xap/ series.

One other useful command:
Additionally, there is the ability to search the package tree using: packages.slackware.com

That is how I do it for small installations of Slackware ARM. Network servers and routers, etc. Typically I find I do not need a GUI unless I am on my daily driver.

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Dependency listings for Slackware packages would be useful if you're looking to strip down your system.

http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/deps/

Read these two posts first though.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...4/#post5640421

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...4/#post5640741

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Very useful information. Thanks.

What will be approximate size of this installation?

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Forget it.
Much to complicated with no use.

No problem!

You can pare it down more if you remove k/ and d/, but that assumes you aren't going to compile or program code. I'm not sure how much space since results will vary depending on what else you add or remove.

useful command to list packages by size.

Q1. If I need to add software from slackbuilds.org, then I think I will need packages in "d" set. Is that correct?

Q2. If there is an update of Linux-image, then "k" folder packages may be needed. Is that correct?

I don't know if this will be helpful, or just spark debate about why I left pkg a out, but here is my list. A few things need explanation. I make a new folder, copy to it only the packages I intend to install, and do the installation from there. In the second part of the installation I install the multilib compat-32 packages, downloaded pre-compiled packages, and my own compiled packages and kernel.

Some things I leave out:
Kernels and modules as I compile my own
gcc and glib - I use the multilib version
the n folder I try to keep as minimal as I can
I totally hacked up x - you get a godzillion fonts, but you only really need font-alias, font-cursor-misc and font-misc-misc, plus something readable, like deja-vu. You also get fonts with libreoffice. I only need keyboard and mouse drivers.
the only things in xap I use are audacious and sane. I compile xfce 4.12 from source , prefer gtk2.
some things like ffmpeg and wine I compile myself.
plus I leave out a lot of stuff I don't need.

slackware64: copy the following from the sub-folders:

a: all except: aaa_glibc-solibs, kernel-firmware, kernel-generic, kernel-huge, kernel-modules, lvm2, mdadm, mtx, pcmciautils, upower

ap: all except: joe, lxc, terminus-font

d: all except: gcc, gcc-brig, gcc-g++, gcc-gdc, gcc-gfortran, gcc-gnat, gcc-go, gcc-objc, llvm, rust

l: all except: alsa-oss, ffmpeg, fuse, fuse3, glibc, glibc-i18n, glibc-profile, gnome-keyring, gnome-themes-standard, imagemagick, libmtp, libnjb, libpcap, media-player-info, pilot-link, pulseaudio, tango-icon-theme-extras, vte

n: only: crda, curl, cyrus-sasl, dhcpcd, ethtool, gnutls, iproute2, iputils, libgcrypt, libgpg-error, libmnl, net-snmp, net-tools, nettle, network-scripts, nghttp2, ntp, openldap, openssl, p11-kit, samba, tcp-wrappers, wireless-tools, wpa_supplicant

x: only fonts: dejavu-fonts, font-alias, font-cursor-misc, font-misc-misc

only drivers: xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse

only servers: xorg-server

remove: anthy, fcitx, fcitx-anthy, fcitx-configtool, fcitx-hangul, fcitx-kkc, fcitx-libpinyin, fcitx-m17n, fcitx-qt5, fcitx-sayura, fcitx-table-extra, fcitx-table-other, fcitx-unikey, ibus, ibus-anthy, ibus-hangul, ibus-kkc, ibus-libpinyin, ibus-m17n, ibus-table, ibus-unikey, twm, vulkan-sdk, xcursor-themes, xdg-user-dirs

install everything else

xap: only: audacious, audacious-plugins, sane

multilib: install the following:

a: aaa_glibc-solibs

d: gcc, gcc-brig, gcc-g++, gcc-gdc, gcc-gfortran, gcc-gnat, gcc-go, gcc-objc

l: glibc, glibc-i18n, glibc-profile

Hope this is useful.

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