How to make a minimal upgrade?

Posted by wajed on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by wajed
Published on 2012-06-16T14:52:16Z Indexed on 2012/06/16 15:22 UTC
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I use

apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop

to install minimal desktop.

I want to upgrade my system to the latest version (12.04) with it still being minimal. How do I do that?

What I tried:-

I tried Update Manager, and it gave me the Option to upgrade to 11.10 first, then to 12.04. What happened after I upgraded to 11.10 is that my desktop got bloated, and instead of the system using 500MB of RAM, now it uses about 1.5GB I can't even start apps anymore.

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