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holamyburrito

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2011-05-21

Posts: 3

Getting rid of gnome and X

Hi all. I want to uninstall all packages related to Xorg and Gnome and bring my system back down to all CLI. However, I know that the package management system is beyond my full comprehension right now and I don't want to go ahead without a game plan that would take into account the things that I'm probably not thinking of. Also, the only way of proceeding that's apparent to me in my newbishness is to do pacman -R xorg and then manually uninstall all of the dependencies that come up as a result. I'm sure that's not the way to go about it, so here I am.

What is the best course of action if I want to make my machine like it was before I installed X, but not break it in ways I can't foresee?

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Diaz

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 366

Re: Getting rid of gnome and X

First, man pacman, then pacman -R --help, or something like that.
Second, if you really don't understand what's there, ask here again ^^.

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Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Getting rid of gnome and X

As Diaz suggested above, I would also recommend reading the man page, and specifically the remove options.

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holamyburrito

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2011-05-21

Posts: 3

Re: Getting rid of gnome and X

I guess more than (or at least in addition to) the actual mechanics of removing the packages I'm just trying to make sure that by doing this I'm not going to break something else not fully related to X or graphical window management. Forgive me if it seems like a dumb question but more than once I've gone and done something thinking it would be a clean operation, only to have something go horribly wrong in some other part of the system.

Just trying to do my due diligence (for once )

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skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Getting rid of gnome and X

pacman -Rsc xorg

I can't promise you that it will be pretty, but that should take out all of X and Gnome.

I do agree that it's helpful to understand these things...

Gruntz

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From: Haskovo, Bulgaria

Registered: 2007-08-31

Posts: 291

Re: Getting rid of gnome and X

When you get back to X, post again. I want to see how wong were you in CLI