Re: Uninstalling Gnome

From	Joe <joe@jretrading.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Uninstalling Gnome
Date	2016-11-29 18:50 +0100
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:12:52 +0000
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:

> Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:11:37 +0000 Rodolfo Medina
> > <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
> >>   
> >> > On Mon 28 Nov 2016 at 21:44:00 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >> >  
> >> >> When I freshly installed Debian on my present system, I chose
> >> >> Gnome as my Desktop manager, then I switched to Openbox.  To
> >> >> free space, now I want to remove all those Gnome packages that I
> >> >> haven't used any more but am not sure what of them I may delete
> >> >> without perturbing the system.  How can I know? More
> >> >> in general, is there a way to know what packages one is not
> >> >> using and so can be
> >> >> removed?  
> >> >
> >> > apt-get purge gnome gnome-shell
> >> > apt-get autoremove
> >> >
> >> > And go from there with 'dpkg -l'.  
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Thanks.  But, my question is: how can I be sure and safe that doing
> >> so will not perturbing my system?  
> >
> > A few years ago, I attempted to entirely remove GNOME from my
> > system. I had switched to the window manager Openbox and no longer
> > needed GNOME and all its parts taking up valuble hard drive space.
> > It proved impossible (or impractical) to do. GNOME lists OS parts
> > among others, lots of others, as dependencies.  Most of its
> > utilities do the same. GNOME is quite invasive.  So, a general
> > "remove" or "purge" gnome, etc. would end up removing most of the
> > OS rendering it useless. Even trying to uninstall its utilities and
> > apps would result in similar situation, a broken system
> >
> > To make a long story short, I eventually ended up reinstalling the
> > OS without any desktop environment, terminal only, then adding X,
> > the window manager, etc. It was the only easy way I found to be
> > totally GNOMEless.  
> 
> 
> I wonder if it's possible to provide Debian a set A of packages and
> say: `please install these and only these and remove all the other
> packages present on the disk except the ones from which some of A
> depends.'  This would be equivalent of reinstalling everything as
> reported by Patrick.  Do you think it would be possible?
> 
Possible, but probably not off the shelf, or someone would have
suggested it by now.

As I said to begin my first reply, the only way to do a proper job is
to start again from scratch, with a minimal text system, no DE, then
add the GUI software of your choice, and your applications. 

And you probably want sudo, which as far as I know, is still not
installed by default.

-- 
Joe

Thread

Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-28 22:50 +0100
  Re: Uninstalling Gnome Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-11-28 23:30 +0100
  Re: Uninstalling Gnome Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-28 23:40 +0100
    Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 10:20 +0100
      Re: Uninstalling Gnome rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-29 14:10 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling Gnome rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-29 14:10 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 14:40 +0100
      Re: Uninstalling Gnome Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 17:00 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling Gnome Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-29 17:10 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 17:20 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling Gnome Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-11-29 18:10 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling Gnome Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-11-29 18:50 +0100
            Re: Uninstalling Gnome Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-29 20:00 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling Gnome Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-11-30 05:20 +0100
      Re: Uninstalling Gnome Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-29 19:00 +0100
  Re: Uninstalling Gnome Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-11-28 23:40 +0100
    Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 12:50 +0100
      Re: Uninstalling Gnome Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-11-29 13:30 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling Gnome Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-11-29 14:00 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 14:10 +0100
            Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 14:30 +0100
      Re: Uninstalling Gnome Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 18:10 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 18:30 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling Gnome Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 20:50 +0100
  Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 14:40 +0100
  Manually installed packages (was: Uninstalling Gnome) Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 00:50 +0100
    Re: Manually installed packages (was: Uninstalling Gnome) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-30 01:30 +0100
      Re: Manually installed packages (was: Uninstalling Gnome) Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 05:30 +0100
      Re: Manually installed packages Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-11-30 14:50 +0100
        Re: Manually installed packages David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-12-01 17:10 +0100
          Re: Manually installed packages Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-12-01 18:10 +0100
            Re: Manually installed packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 19:40 +0100
              Re: Manually installed packages Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-12-01 20:10 +0100
                Re: Manually installed packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-12-03 14:40 +0100
                Re: Manually installed packages kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-12-03 19:00 +0100
                Re: Manually installed packages Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-12-04 10:50 +0100
                Re: Manually installed packages Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-12-04 11:00 +0100
                Re: Manually installed packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-12-04 13:00 +0100
                Re: Manually installed packages Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-12-04 13:10 +0100
              Re: Manually installed packages Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-12-01 20:50 +0100
              Re: Manually installed packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-01 22:00 +0100
          Re: Manually installed packages Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2016-12-02 19:20 +0100
        Re: Manually installed packages Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2016-12-02 18:30 +0100
    Re: Manually installed packages Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-11-30 09:50 +0100

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