Question on erasing Gnome desktop

[Kyle Maxwell]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:18:56 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> # df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdg2             5.6G  3.5G  1.9G  65% /
> /dev/hdg1             105M  7.6M   92M   8% /boot
> none                  157M     0  157M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hdg5             3.2G  353M  2.7G  12% /home

> Drupal requests Apache, PHP and MySQL running .  To
> free HD space for them I'm prepared to erase GNOME
> desktop which I only visit occasionally, most times
> using KDE.

It looks like you should have enough space for the install, though I'm
not sure how much space you'll need for the DB itself. Is this a
workstation running a Drupal instance or an actual server?

> 1) On/after erasing all GNOME packages will it cause
> breakage to other packages

It'll break things with dependencies, yes, so you'll want to make sure
that any packages that depend on GNOME are not important to you.

> 2) Can I retain gnomemeeting-1.0.2-2?  Can it work
> without GNOME desktop?

Check the dependencies (rpm -q --info gnomemeeting) but I doubt it
will work. Again, is this a workstation or a server (or a bit of
both)?

> 3) What other packages can I strip to free more HD
> space

OpenOffice.org is large. You also might dig into the directories ("du
-sk /" and work down from there) to see where all your usage is. A new
HD also might be cheaper than all the time you're going to spend
working on this. :)

> 4) Which of following commands will be more
> appropriate on erasing GNOME packages
> 
> # rpm -e gnome*
> 
> OR
> 
> # yum remove gnome*
> (yum is running on this box for update/install
> packages)

yum remove/erase will check dependencies for you. I'm not sure the
former command works? The shell would probably try to expand out the
wildcard and not all gnome-dependent packages start with the string
"gnome".

-- 
Kyle Maxwell
[krmaxwell at gmail.com]