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Hi, I made this for myself, and thought someone else might be interested.

It's an automated install bash script for a Sympal ready lamp server, based on Ubuntu 9.10.

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I recently upgraded from ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. 

At the same time, I upgraded from an older computer to a newer pc I built from parts off newegg.

The Best Thing About Ubuntu?

Creating an Ubuntu 9.04 virtual machine in Virtualbox is easy.  Creating one small enough to share through bittorrent is a bit more of a challenge. 

I created a script below to slim down a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 install from 2.2gb down to 1.1gb. 

I didn't find an easy way to do it besides spending alot of time in the package managers.  Here's a couple of interesting things I found:

To create a list of installed packages sorted by size try this: