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2008/11/29 Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > In a bid to cut down the Ubuntu system installed on an old laptop, I > have managed to strip it more than I had intended. I wanted to strip it > down to command-line only so I could have a nice, clean system to add a > lightweight GUI onto, instead of adding the lightweight GUI and then > trying to remove all traces of the heavier-weight ones, and I have > indeed now got a system that boots to command-line only... and that's > the problem. I haven't got apt, wget, dpkg, etc. > Oops. Copy the dpkg binary off another machine or a live cd via scp and then use that to dpkg -i the apt-get package (downloaded from packages.ubuntu.com) and then apt-get whatever else you need. Cheers, Al. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html