Hi there,

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.

A new Debian 7.3 (64-bit) deploy has these packages:

https://mnrd.us/tmp/dpkg-l-0.txt

An `aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade` upgrades these packages:



Resulting in this package list:

https://mnrd.us/tmp/dpkg-l-1.txt

A diff between them:

https://mnrd.us/tmp/dpkg-l.diff

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.)

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Matt Nordhoff (aka Peng on IRC)

Hi Matt,

that's terrific - many, many thanks for the quick reply! Now I know exactly where to start!!

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.

Linode's stock Ubuntu image has waaay less than 436 packages. Way less than 283 too. It has virtually nothing installed by default. They basically use the Ubuntu Minimal profile, last I checked.

OK, that is good to know, too. I was referring to the "official" ubuntu cloud images from http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/, not Linode's ones. Sorry if that caused confusion. Thanks for your insights!

Michael.