Remove Gnome desktop on F18 ?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Feb 8 15:35:36 UTC 2013


Jozef Zigmund (jzigmund at redhat.com) said: 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm curious, if it's a possibility to remove entirely GNOME 3 from F18.
> 
> I've tried via '# yum groupremove GNOME\ Desktop' but it looked like it
> wants to wipe out whole system, because it ended with:
> 
> 
> ...
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Trying to remove "systemd", which is protected
> Error: Trying to remove "yum", which is protected
> 
> So the question is, how can I remove Gnome-shell (with all
> dependencies) ?

'GNOME Desktop' is the full gnome environment, from the base OS
all the way up through X and gnome. You might want to try 'gnome-desktop'.
(And yeah, that's a little confusing.)

Bill


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