Package Listing for Linode Debian Image
is it possible that someone sends me a dpkg -l listing of the stock installed Debian 7.3 Wheezy image?
I wanted to prepare to go to Linode at the end of this year, when my project is ready and in the meantime start working on a fully automated setup with my own OpenStack cloud. Therefore I'd like to replicate the image I will find lateron on a linode and work out the needed steps for tailoring the setup to the final deployment config.
Unfortunately the support staff asked me to order a linode to find out the installed packages, but I do not want to spend 20$*9 months for a server I do not need now just to find out which packages are installed. And the default image is also not available for download anywhere.
If you can help me, I would be grateful.
Thanks,
Michael.
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https://mnrd.us/tmp/dpkg-l-0.txt
An aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade upgrades these packages:
> base-files curl file libc-bin libc6 libcurl3 libgnutls26 libmagic1 libssl1.0.0 locales multiarch-support openssl tzdata wget whois
Resulting in this package list:
A diff between them:
Edit:
All in all, it should be a pretty typical minimal install. Linode probably makes some small changes, such as removing various hardware tools useless in a virtual environment (e.g. driver packages).
It would not cost you $180 to check this yourself. If you created a Linode 1024 today, you would pay about $24 – a prorated fee for the rest of this month, plus the entirety of next month. If you then deleted the node after a few minutes, all but $0.71 of that (today's prorated fee) would be credited to your account. (Linode has billing metered by the hour in beta, where that would cost you a grand total of $0.03.)
that's terrific
All the best to you,
Michael.
NB: Actually that's quite good - stock install of 283 packages is close to what I have when I install with preseed and no tasksel packages (271 packages). Compared to the ubuntu cloud images which have 436 packages installed per default, that's grand.
Michael.