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kelamahim 01-29-2012 05:41 AM

how to completely remove gui?
 
Hi!

I installed Debian without desktop enviroment and then I aptitude installed fluxbox, everything worked fine, but I wanted to try LXDE so I purged fluxbox and installed LXDE.But my old computer is too slow now. I purged the LXDE, but it is still here and it didn`t remove as many packages as it installed them, I also removed lxde-core, but it continues to work.

How could I get back to non-desktop enviroment without reinstalling the whole system?

Thanks,

Miha

repo 01-29-2012 06:02 AM

Perhaps you can use
Code:

apt-get autoremove
apt-cache depends lxde

To find the dependencies and then remove them?

Kind regards

TobiSGD 01-29-2012 08:13 AM

To explain that a little more: the packages lxde and lxde-core are metapackages. Their only function is to provide dependencies on the packages needed to install a full blown LXDE deskto (lxde) or a bare-bone LXDE (lxde-core). They don't install stuff themself, so if you remove or purge them all you do is to remove the meta-package, but not the dependencies. To remove them do like repo suggested.


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