Re: GNome Un-install?

[Ali Helmy]

I did the ($ yum groupremove "GNOME...etc) command, but it also
removed some weird stuff along... it removed for example,
openoffice.org writer, kdeadmin, openoffice.org langpacks and
others...

why the hell did that happen?

On 12/27/05, Ali Helmy  wrote:
> On 12/27/05, Rahul Sundaram  wrote:
> > Ali Helmy wrote:
> > > Hey
> > > I am currently using KDE on my FC4 system, and I dont need nor use
> > > Gnome 99% of the time, so I wanted to remove it form the system.
> > > The Add/Remove applications program can only remove certain
> > > packages from gnome, but not all of it, nor its core files.
> > >
> > > Is there anyway I can remove GNome DE?
> >
> > # yum groupremove "GNOME Desktop Environment"
> > > PS: how can i know a package name for a certain program? i mean if
> > > i have like, program x, or package x listed in the Add/Remove
> > > program, how do i get to know its package name to remove it with
>
> rpm?
> > >
> >
> > Add/Remove Program (system-config-packages) doesnt understand
> > repositories. This is scheduled to be fixed for the final release of
> > Fedora Core 5. For now you can use Yumex which is a graphical frontend
> > for yum available from the Fedora Extras repository.
> >
> > More information available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/yum
> >
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