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Thanks in advance for any help.

I want to give young students USB drives with persistent Lubuntu installs. When I prepare these drives, I move the desktop icon, "install Lubuntu" to the trash. I don't want the young students to be installing Lubuntu on the hard drives of their parents' computers. My problem is that when I reboot the USB, the "install Lubuntu" icon has returned to the desktop, even though all the other changes I made persist after rebooting.

How can I permanently, persistently remove the install Lubuntu icon from the desktop?

Martin Trueman
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    What you probably want to do is called a "Live CD Customization" and help.ubuntu.com has a great article on that!

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization

     – Fabby Nov 20 '14 at 22:53

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I don't know if you still need an answer. But I will do it anyway.

If you install the Linux directly on USB, it will remove the Installer app. The main idea is in 2 steps:

  1. Set your pendrive (usb) root / flag.
  2. Install bootload on the pendrive that you set root flag.

Detail of how to installing Linux on USB in here: Can I install Ubuntu to my 32 GB USB pen drive?

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To remove the "Install Lubuntu" icon, you could remove the installer, Ubiquity. To do so, you'll have to customize the ISO. When you arrive at the step where you chroot into the extracted ISO, you can uninstall the installer with

apt-get purge ubiquity

The resulting ISO will then have no installer. This should also remove the installation icon from the desktop. If it doesn't remove the installation .desktop file in /home/lubuntu/

To remove the Installation options from GRUB, open the file USBROOT/boot/grub/grub.cfg in a text editor. This file contains all boot menu entries in the following format:

menuentry "Name" {
    # some config
}

Remove the entries you don't need, then save. If you use UNetBootin for creation of the boot sticks, also edit the file USBROOT/syslinux.cfg. Here the format of the entries is diffrent:

label ubnentryX
#config

Remove the entries you don't need, and decrement the following entry numbers (X) so they are in a sequence starting at 0. Again, save and exit.

s3lph
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  • No success. I only have a file called "loopback.cfg" in the /boot/grub location. It is concerned with editing the grub menu. I want to permanently remove an icon "install Lubuntu" from the desktop. The measures suggested here do not accomplish this. At some point I may get around to altering the grub menu but I wanted to remove the icon from the desktop first, if possible. – Martin Trueman Nov 21 '14 at 01:28
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I was trying to find an answer for the same question and found one I could adapt. In my case, I'm in Lubuntu, so I made a file with this content:

#!/bin/sh 
mv -f /home/lubuntu/Desktop/ubiquity.desktop /home/lubuntu/Desktop/.ubiquity.desktop

I've not tried to remove it, because being "hidden" is enough for me. But replacing with rm -f /home/lubuntu/Desktop/ubiquity.desktop instead, should also do the job.

I placed it in ~/.local/bin and named it unubiquous.sh and then add it to the lxsession autostart list, reboot, and voilá, it's gone!

aj_alm
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