aberean

http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1867-recommendations-please-for-a-noob-opipc-and-asterisk-wgui/ Igor Administrator
Administrators 2441 posts Posted 19 August 2016 - 09:33 PM
Our desktop is already lightweight as possible. There are only few applications, which you might not need: 
libreoffice-writer thunderbird icedoveUninstall them if you thing it's urgent to do so.
 
I never built Asterix but since Armbian desktop is Debian based, I would check guides like this:
 
https://www.howtofor...risk-on-debian/
 
 
 
Haha, it was you who gave me the article. it seems i cant access it anymore (BEWARE, accessing it now may bring a virus warning page) but in following the steps, I only got a few steps in. basically to the prereqs. I could not get past them as I could not install them all. I am thinking the page was outdated and may not have the best install options now.

There is a desktop version of armbian, but you may will have trouble with wicd, a GUI program that is supposed to
help set up the network connections. When this happens, search for "tutorial wireless success" in this forums *titles*,
then apt purge wicd and configure it by hand.
Be sure to read the Docs: http://docs.armbian.com/
Please forget about configuring your system with the GUI. You will use the command line tools, and you will
have to read, google and learn a lot, From a user perspective armbian is like debian and mostly like ubuntu.
So general user instructions on these systems can often be cautiously adapted.
Many of the problems you will encounter have already been solved in this forum, so use the search.
 
best wishes,
gnasch

Our desktop is already lightweight as possible. There are only few applications, which you might not need: 
libreoffice-writer thunderbird icedove Uninstall them if you thing it's urgent to do so.
 
I never built Asterix but since Armbian desktop is Debian based, I would check guides like this:
 
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-install-asterisk-on-debian/