Mandriva Minimal Desktop

quickstart

  • download mandriva free dual iso (dont use the mandriva one livecd)
  • burn the cd
  • boot and start the install
  • do not choose kde/gnome. choose 'LXDE Desktop' or 'Other Graphical Desktops' or both
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  • if you want very minimal installs, you can uncheck all other package groups.
  • 'console tools' package have lots of useful command line tools
  • follow the instruction to finish and reboot
  • done.

administration

almost everything can be configured using mandriva control center

su
mcc

install software

just use urpmi for most everything

urpmi --auto-update #automatically update and upgrade all apps. even upgrade to latest release
urpmi firefox
urpmi openoffice.org
urpmi koffice
urpmi task-lxde
urpmi task-xfce

search for apps

urpmq -ay whattosearch

repositories

mandriva 2009.1 repositories indonesian mirror list

su
wget http://snipt.org/raw/download/knpp -O /root/indo.list
urpmi.removemedia -a
urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist file:///root/indo.list
urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/2009.1.i586.list'
urpmi --auto-update
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