I did not get that tasksel at all, at the end of the install I had 12 choices, 11 was ssh server and 12 was standard system components and by mistake I chose 12. I cannot use the gui, I need speech to read the screen and I don't want all that bloat running on a voip server. What if I just put a stanza in /etc/network/interfaces and get rid of network manager?
On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:04:47 -0400, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 04:21:35AM -0400, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. I just installed Debian Bullseye on a refurbished computer which > > I am going to use as a voip server. Now, due to my ignorance, at the > > very end of the install, I selected to use #12 which said standard > > system items. > > > > Well, to my horror, I got gnome with all its dependencies. I ran > > apt-get and purged all the gnome items. However, my outgoing > > connection instead of being in /etc/network/interfaces is now managed > > by network-manager. I don't want to use the gui, but there seems to > > be no good way to configure the connection, should I need to do so. > > /etc/systemd/network is empty. > > > > So, how can I either get back to /etc/network/interfaces or somehow > > manage the existing connection which is buried in > > /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ and is readable, but I could > > never change it. > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > -- > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > > How do > > you spend it? > > > > John Covici wb2una > > cov...@ccs.covici.com > > > > Hi John, > > I find that nmtui - the text interface is quite useful. It is persistent - > configuration will stick around. > > For anybody else: if you really don't want a GUI at all: if you deselect > both GNOME and Debian desktop components in the tasksel step of the Debian > installer then you should get no GUI components. If you then explicitly > select standard install components lower down in tasksel, you will get > some X Windows libraries but you will end up with no GUI and no desktop > environment as far as I recollect. It's necessary to uncheck both the > Debian desktop environment AND the default of GNOME which is selected. > > All the very best, as ever, > > Andy Cater > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com