how to remove GUI

From	"Michael Morgan" <michaelmorgan937@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	how to remove GUI
Date	2020-09-11 06:40 +0200
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Dear friend, 

 

I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. I was planning to use it for
scientific computation so GUI is not necessary. For some reason, I installed
the desktop environment with LXDE desktop during installation. Later I
decided to remove them. These two commands were executed:

 

tasksel remove desktop

apt purge $(tasksel --task-packages desktop)

 

However, after rebooting the system still has GUI. Here is the result of
"tasksel --list-tasks":

 

u desktop       Debian desktop environment

u gnome-desktop GNOME

u xfce-desktop  Xfce

u kde-desktop   KDE

u cinnamon-desktop      Cinnamon

u mate-desktop  MATE

u lxde-desktop  LXDE

u web-server    web server

i print-server  print server

i ssh-server    SSH server

u laptop        laptop

 

So it seems the desktop package was removed. But why it still has GUI?

 

It is pretty much an absolute clean installation. The only thing I did
between OS installation and removing GUI is the installation of cuda package
(for GPU driver). "nvidia-smi" gives: 

 

|    0      1730      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg
132MiB |

|    0      2285      G   kwin_x11
17MiB |

|    0      2292      G   /usr/bin/krunner
2MiB |

|    0      2295      G   /usr/bin/plasmashell
45MiB |

|    0      3091      G   ...4-linux-gnu/libexec/kscreenlocker_greet
28MiB

 

So plasmashell and x11 are not part of desktop? What is the correct way to
completely remove GUI?

 

Thank you.

 

Michael

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how to remove GUI "Michael Morgan" <michaelmorgan937@gmail.com> - 2020-09-11 06:40 +0200
  Re: how to remove GUI Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-09-11 08:40 +0200
    Re: how to remove GUI Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-09-11 08:40 +0200
  Re: how to remove GUI Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-09-11 10:10 +0200
  Re: how to remove GUI Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-09-11 14:00 +0200
    Re: how to remove GUI Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2020-09-11 15:10 +0200
      Re: how to remove GUI Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-11 16:40 +0200
        Re: how to remove GUI David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-11 17:40 +0200
          Re: how to remove GUI Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-11 17:50 +0200
            Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-09-11 21:20 +0200
              Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-12 04:10 +0200
              Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI) David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-09-12 13:50 +0200
                Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-14 04:20 +0200
                Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-14 14:00 +0200
                Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI) David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-09-21 04:20 +0200
                Re: spurious CR/LF on tty (was: how to remove GUI) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-21 16:40 +0200
          Re: how to remove GUI Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-09-12 11:50 +0200
  Re: how to remove GUI Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-11 14:00 +0200
    Re: how to remove GUI rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-11 14:40 +0200

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