It happened again today and I hate it when it happens:
Ubuntu on a server...sigh
"But Ubuntu is Debian and you love Debian, why do you hate Ubuntu so much then?"
No it's not Debian, it's Ubuntu. (Oh and btw: OSX isn't BSD, Darwin is BSD... sort of.)
"But Ubuntu is so much easier than Debian..."
Yeh well, Hitler thought exterminating an entire group of people was easier than just dealing with them.
"Ubuntu LTS has long time support and is commercially supported..."
Get away from me, suit, go hug an SLA or something.
Ubuntu is bloated and I don't want it anywhere near my servers... and upstart is evil.
Not the cool evil like Behemoth, more like the bad evil like Codemasters.
So I guess I overreacted a bit and converted the Crabuntu into Debian, I've done that a couple times before and it works fine but every time I do it something unexpected happens so don't take this guide too literal.
Disclaimer: but of course I am fully responsible for what you do to you system, this won't hurt your system at all and nothing stated in this disclaimer is a lie...
First I'm going to delete everything:
dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' | xargs --replace dpkg --purge {}
We can totally do this as the most important stuff will refuse to purge.
Next, let's make apt decide what the system can do without:
apt-get autoremove
Now purge every package which only has configuration files on the system:
dpkg -l | grep ^rc | awk '{print $2}' | xargs --replace dpkg --purge {}
Good, not too much is left on the system.
Let's upgrade those packages to their Debian counterparts:
echo "deb ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
Install the Debian version of apt-utils as we're going to need it:
apt-get install apt-utils
Upgrade everything:
dpkg -l | awk -F' ' '{print $2}' | xargs --replace apt-get install -y --force-yes {}
Remove those pieces of shit:
dpkg --purge --force-all upstart
dpkg --purge --force-all mountall
dpkg --purge --force-all plymouth
Install something decent:
apt-get install sysvinit
Reinstall grub (not so important I think)
apt-get install grub2
Reinstall a kernel, might be useful sometimes:
apt-get install linux-base linux-image-amd64
Throw away everything else Ubuntu related:
dpkg -l | grep ubuntu | awk '{print $2}' | xargs --replace apt-get remove --purge {} -y
I like openssh:
apt-get install openssh-server
If it's good enough for Linus, it's good enough for me:
sync
sync
sync
Reboot right the fuck now:
reboot -fn
TADA.... and gone is the Ubuntu crap.
