Jozef Zigmund (jzigmund@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

On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 16:30 +0100, Jozef Zigmund wrote:

So the question is, how can I remove Gnome-shell (with all dependencies) ?

What Bill said, but you should be aware that gdm is using gnome-shell, so you will have to find yourself a different display manager.

Am Freitag, den 08.02.2013, 16:30 +0100 schrieb Jozef Zigmund:

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:

yum groupremove removes *all* packages inside a group - no matter if the packages are really GNOME or even required by something else. Better use 'yum remove libgnome*'. Make sure to install any other environment you want to use before removing GNOME. We have some dependencies that are satisfied by multiple package and you first want to install the replacement to not have to uninstall everything you want to continue using later.

Kind regards, Christoph

For what it's worth, under Fedora 17 I did:

yum groupremove "GNOME Desktop Environment"

However, as Christoph said, it removes all sorts of things that you *might* want elsewhere. Having gone through a similar process changing gnome to XFCE on a centos box using really crappy box about a year ago, one of the things I learned was to have the ssh server active on the target machine, and a client machine that can ssh in. Oh, and to do what Christoph said, which is to install the desired desktop environment before rebooting, but after removing the Gnome desktop. Or at least to repeat the "groupinstall" command for the new desktop environment.

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) ?

Regards,

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Jozef

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