hi

when i installed gnome using command 'apt-get install gnome' it told me that
167 MB of software will be downloaded and after installing about 567MB of additional space will be used. but now i want to remove gnome since i want to use another desktop environment. so i did 'apt-get --purge remove gnome' and it told me that only 16.4kB disk space will be freed. so i am confused. i thought with --purge option in apt-get one can remove an entire package . so how do i remove everything that was installed witht the command
'apt-get install gnome' , also i saw that in gnome one cant remove individual packages
like games for example. when i want to remove some particular game in gnome terminal asks me whether i want to remove gnome and gnome-games. in KDE i could remove one particular game without removing KDE. because i dont like these games and other unnecessary software that comes with kde or gnome.

wood

Do you have a lack of diskspace ?

You can install both Gnome and KDE, and they shouldnt conflict with each other. Having both installed can be useful though, because then you can run gnome programs from within KDE and vice versa.

I hope this helps
--Ian

Like iball said, it is very usefull to keep at least the gnome and/or kde libraries around because some packages that you may want to use depend on them. I use the fluxbox window manager because KDE and gnome are just too cluttered with useless junk, but I still keep their libraries and base files around so that I can use nice apps like guarddog and gnome-games.

If you want more control over what is getting installed and removed try using aptitude.