Aomighty Posted June 14, 2005 Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 (edited) So, I installed Mandrake 10.1 Official Powerpack, anyway, I figured I'd try a variety of GUI's, so I installed KDE, Gnome, and IceWYM and such. After a while, I decided I want to use KDE. Going to the list of programs, I click to uninstall Gnome, however, it says removing the package "vim-enhanced-6.3-5mdk" would render the system unusable. However, I only want to use KDE, so it seems strange that Linux would need a Gnome file for it. How can I remove Gnome and others while not destroying my system? Thanks. Edited June 14, 2005 by Ao the Unstoppable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 14, 2005 Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 What-exactly did you "click to uninstall"? You can remove many Gnome modules, but not things that are also used by other WM's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 14, 2005 Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 Vim is vi, and is by default the editor available in rescue mode and the like. That would have been one of many messages of pkgs you shouldn't remove. Others would have been gtk libs as well as the control center and other drak mods use them. Best thing to do is Search for gnome and start removing what you can little by little which I know is a pain. Since gtk stuff is tied to the control center, it seems to me the only thing that makes sense is to have the pkgs made so that when selecting Gnome to be removed, it automatically removes only what gnome needs to run and the extras, and leave the sys stuff alone. But, that would make too much sense wouldn't it? That would make things easy for you and hard on pkg maintainer's even though they have to right the pkg headers anyway. Seems they'd just do it right the first time and be done with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aomighty Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Hmm... ok. I'll try that and see what I can remove. Anyway I could change the editor of rescue mode to emacs so i could remove vi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 I guess not, because even though it is possible and theory, and could be done on LFS for example, with md[kv], you're limited in your actions by the "hard-coded" RPM dependencies. If RPM says you need vi, then it is vi, unless you use the --nodeps switch, maybe symlink emacs to vi, and know what you're doing. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Why should you prefer emacs over vi? If you need an easy to use console text editor, then either install "nano", or use Midnight Commander (it's F4 function uses vi, but without any of the strange shortcuts vi needs to operate). vi is the *nix standard text editor, but its usage is admittedly not user-friendly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aomighty Posted June 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Hmm... I guess I'll remove what I can. Question: When you select to install only KDE during installation and then go into your installed software, does it have an entry in Workstations for Gnome? Are you required to have a bit of Gnome software no matter what? Btw, trying Linux for the first time has been AWESOME!!! I love it so much how I can customize it all and I have freedom. Thanks everyone for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 (edited) Question: When you select to install only KDE during installation and then go into your installed software, does it have an entry in Workstations for Gnome? Are you required to have a bit of Gnome software no matter what? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> -required to run gnome is gtk which in turn is also required to run mandriva gui tools (control center) -but you can have gtk installed and not gnome -In other words....gtk is the toolkit gnome and mandriva tools (control center) uses Edited June 22, 2005 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Bits of Gnome may be needed nonetheless: gnome-print, gnome-terminal... as dependencies to other Gnome-centered applications, even if you don't use Gnome itself. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwardp Posted April 22, 2007 Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 I installed Gnome (in addition to KDE) on my P1 system to try to find out why I would receive the (now occasional) Kdesktop error at bootup (no icons), since Gnome appeared to be less resource-intense than KDE. Now that I have (for the most part) resolved the KDesktop error, I would like to uninstall Gnome, to free up some disk space. In reading this thread, I take it that there is no easy way, e.g. urpme gnome to uninstall Gnome? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 22, 2007 Report Share Posted April 22, 2007 "urpme gnome" is a legal command for many distros (gnome being a meta-package), but 1. I do not know if it's applicable for Mandriva, 2. in any case it's very likely to complain about breaking quite a few dependencies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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