Uninstalling Gnome

Rogelio Nodal rnodal at pegasus.rutgers.edu
Tue Oct 11 18:10:18 UTC 2005


Stephen R Laniel wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:01:50PM -0400, Rogelio Nodal wrote:
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>>Whats the right command to uninstall gnome?I tried sudo apt-get remove 
>>ubuntu-desktop thinking that it will remove Xorg and everything else 
>>that is graphical, I just want to run a server. Thanks for your help and 
>>time.
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>That's a small gripe I've had. It's not quite that easy. You
>have to upgrade all the *xorg* packages, all the gnome*
>packages, and so forth. Some of those will also uninstall
>other graphical packages, but as far as I know there's no
>way to uninstall all the graphical stuff at one shot. I've
>done exactly this task a few times under Debian and Ubuntu,
>and I've not been able to do better than running a few
>apt-get commands in a row.
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Do you still have those commands? :)

thanks for your answer.

-R




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