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Grant

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[SOLVED]Removing DE

Hello,

I've recently installed gnome on my system that uses Cinnamon. This because I have a problem with the fonts on the web documents; but this is an another thing.
To install it, I have used:
# pacman -S gnome
But the problem wasn't solved, and now I want to remove gnome. However when I try to remove it, pacman warns me that there are some dependencies from other packages (like eog, gnome-terminal, etc).
Is it possible to remove gnome without the requested dependencies?

Last edited by Grant (2014-09-08 09:37:47)

donniezazen

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

Removing everything but base group

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phil

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

So you want to remove gnome, but not gnome-xxxx packages?
You can do this using:

pacman -Rdd

Have a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … g_packages .

mcmillan

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

So you want to remove gnome, but not gnome-xxxx packages?
You can do this using:

pacman -Rdd

Have a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … g_packages .

That seems like a good way to end up with a broken system, pacman -Rc is probably closer to what you need.

But rather than us guessing what you're trying to do, It would probably be more helpful if you were to post exactly what commands you're using and what dependency errors you're getting. Since you mentioned English not being your main language, if the output is normally in Italian you can change this by using

LC_ALL=C pacman 

instead of just pacman

Grant

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

I'm sorry mcmillan,but I'm a noob in the Arch Linux's world.
Anyway, this is the output:
[black@black ~]$ sudo pacman -R gnome
[sudo] password for black:
controllo delle dipendenze in corso... //checking dependencies
errore: impossibile eseguire l'operazione richiesta (impossibile soddisfare le dipendenze) //unable to run the requested operation (cannot satisfy the dependencies)
:: cinnamon: richiede gnome-control-center // "richiede" means requests
:: cinnamon: richiede gnome-panel
:: cinnamon: richiede gnome-session
:: cinnamon: richiede gnome-settings-daemon
:: cinnamon: richiede gnome-themes-standard
:: cinnamon: richiede notification-daemon
:: eog: richiede gnome-desktop
:: eog: richiede gnome-icon-theme
:: gnome-tweak-tool: richiede gnome-settings-daemon
:: libgweather: richiede gnome-icon-theme
:: network-manager-applet: richiede gnome-icon-theme
:: totem: richiede gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
[black@black ~]$

Last edited by Grant (2012-12-16 20:53:12)

ximun

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

Ciao Grant, try the following command:

pacman -Rs gnome

It should remove the gnome packages that aren't required by the other packages installed on your system (cinnamon, eog, etc.).

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2ManyDogs

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

I recently installed gnome on my system that use Cinnamon.

Are you using cinnarch?

karol

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

When posting on the forum, please prepend your commands with LC_ALL=C so that the output is in English e.g.

$ LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -R gnome

Grant

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

I recently installed gnome on my system that use Cinnamon.

Are you using cinnarch?

I have installed cinnamon (I don't remember precisely how,  maybe with yaourt -S cinnamon)

Those are the output in English of pacman -R gnome and pacman -Rs gnome:

[black@black ~]$ LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -R gnome
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: cinnamon: requires gnome-control-center
:: cinnamon: requires gnome-panel
:: cinnamon: requires gnome-session
:: cinnamon: requires gnome-settings-daemon
:: cinnamon: requires gnome-themes-standard
:: cinnamon: requires notification-daemon
:: eog: requires gnome-desktop
:: eog: requires gnome-icon-theme
:: gnome-tweak-tool: requires gnome-settings-daemon
:: libgweather: requires gnome-icon-theme
:: network-manager-applet: requires gnome-icon-theme
:: totem: requires gnome-icon-theme-symbolic

[black@black ~]$ LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -Rs gnome
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: cinnamon: requires gnome-control-center
:: cinnamon: requires gnome-panel
:: cinnamon: requires gnome-session
:: cinnamon: requires gnome-settings-daemon
:: cinnamon: requires gnome-themes-standard
:: cinnamon: requires notification-daemon
:: eog: requires gnome-desktop
:: eog: requires gnome-icon-theme
:: gnome-tweak-tool: requires gnome-settings-daemon
:: totem: requires gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
[black@black ~]$ 

Are you understanding what I'm writing?

Last edited by Grant (2012-12-17 09:58:30)

karol

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

$ pacman -Sqg gnome
epiphany
gdm
gnome-backgrounds
gnome-control-center
gnome-desktop
gnome-icon-theme
gnome-icon-theme-extras
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
gnome-keyring
gnome-panel
gnome-screensaver
gnome-session
gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-shell
gnome-terminal
gnome-themes-standard
gnome-user-docs
metacity
mutter
nautilus
notification-daemon
xdg-user-dirs-gtk
yelp

You can try removing the packages (with their dependencies) one by one.

NikTh

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

Also you can see what you have installed

pacman -Ss gnome | grep installed

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Grant

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

And so there isn't a command to remove gnome without the requested dependencies of other packages.
@NikTh it doesn't work.
I'll try what karol has said.
I use gnome-terminal and nautilus, so I don't remove them.

Update:
I can't remove some packages, because they are required.
I want to remove cinnamon and gnome: how can I achieve that?
Then I will install cinnarch. Some days ago, I installed gnome because I've a problem with Cinnamon (I can't see correctly some web pages) to try to solve it, but uselessly.

Last edited by Grant (2014-09-08 09:39:57)

NikTh

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

My post was something like an addition , not solving any problems , it will show you what you have installed related to gnome. Thats all.

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Grant

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

Sure, I have only said that it doesn't work.
Now I want to do that there is in the update.

mcmillan

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

As I suggested before, pacman -Rc still looks like it may be what you need, it will remove packages and anything that depends on those packages. Just read the output carefully to be sure it's not removing more than you think it should. It may also be easier to remove gnome-terminal and nautilus and reinstall them afterwards

Grant

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

With pacman -Rc I removed cinnamon & gnome (not completely). I installed xterm before.
Now I need to access to console entering the word "console" in the input username of SLiM. But it doesn't work.
How I can set xterm?

Last edited by Grant (2012-12-17 14:51:20)

anonymous_user

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

Why don't you just switch to one of the virtual terminals? Use Ctrl+Alt+F1, F2, etc.

Grant

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

Thanks, it is what I was looking!
I'm cleaning some useless dependencies of cinnamon and gnome, after I'll install cinnarch.
Cinnarch is a DE with cinnamon but more compatible with archlinux, right? Or what?

Last edited by Grant (2014-09-08 09:36:13)

anonymous_user

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

Cinnarch is a Arch Linux-based distro that uses Cinnamon as the DE and it also provides its own repositories:

http://www.cinnarch.com/about/

BTW if you are having problems with Gnome/Cinnamon, you should just make a new thread for that and try to find a solution.

Grant

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

I hope I've solved. I'll install gnome-shell...

Last edited by Grant (2014-09-08 09:35:10)

Grant

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

Is possible to install only gnome-shell without gnome-fallback?

Grant

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

I have opened a new thread, this is solved.
Thanks to all participants.

NikTh

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing DE

Then please mark it as solved.

Finally, when a solution is found, mark your thread as solved by editing the first post and prepending the tag [SOLVED] to the title in the "Subject" field.

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