Gul Dukat Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 Hi, I just installed Mandriva One on of my pcs. But installs KDE by default. The thing is, I want to remove KDE completely and install Xfce as my WM. But how can I remove KDe completely? Which commands? And after removing KDE, will urpmi xfce suffice for installing Xfce? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 I think: urpme kdebase should do the majority of it. Any packages that require KDE as a dependency would also be shown in being removed as well. urpmi xfce should do the trick. Hopefully it's in the repositories, but you might want to set up easy-urpmi sources before just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted May 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 Would adding only the contrib and main sources, suffice for installing Xfce? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 XFCE is in contrib, so could be OK. Not sure if it requires other repositories such as plf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 Plf is of course not officially supported by Mandriva so it shouldn't be a dependency either. I would install XFCE first and then you can remove KDE from XFCE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted May 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 Oke, thanks. Will give it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 XFCE can use KDE and Gnome services, so you can run KDE or Gnome related applications within XFCE. I'd suggest removing KDE, but leaving kdebase and kdelibs at your system. They wont use much space, nor handicap any i686 machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted May 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 XFCE can use KDE and Gnome services, so you can run KDE or Gnome related applications within XFCE. I'd suggest removing KDE, but leaving kdebase and kdelibs at your system. They wont use much space, nor handicap any i686 machine. I intended to make a LiveCD, so I would like to remove KDE entirely. Would this harm Xfce? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 No XFCE is independent from KDE, but it would harm KDE programs of course, so you can't use e.g. k3b afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted May 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 No XFCE is independent from KDE, but it would harm KDE programs of course, so you can't use e.g. k3b afterwards. Mmm, oke. My objective is to keep the iso as small as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted May 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 Oke, everything worked and Xfce is up and running. Thanks Ianw. But I´ve been removing a few programs in Xfce I don´t need through MCC. The programs are gone, but the entry in menu stays. The icon that accompanies the entry, is gone too. So how can I remove the entries that are left behind? I tried update-menus -v and a reboot already, but they didn´t remove the entry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 Look in /usr/lib/menu and try to remove the corresponding files from there and see if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted May 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Look in /usr/lib/menu and try to remove the corresponding files from there and see if that helps. Thanks, will look at it this afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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