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jpjenkins

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Registered: 2014-03-24

Posts: 104

[SOLVED]Removing enlightenment and gnome...

Apologies if this has been posted already, I did a little search but couldn't find anything.

I installed arch a couple of weeks ago with enlightenment, to me it looked by far the most advanced environment to use. However there's hardly any support! They have a mailing list instead of a forum, is this 1994?

So I went and installed gnome, but it's not starting.

I just want to get rid of all of it now, gnome, enlightenment, all the rubbish along with it and install openbox then go from there.

I don't want my comp filled with random rubbish and I worry that it may be at the point where it's more beneficial to reinstall arch and start again but I know you good folks on the forum can help me avoid that monumental nooby stress that comes packaged with arch.

Cheers!

Last edited by jpjenkins (2014-04-03 18:58:31)

jpjenkins

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Registered: 2014-03-24

Posts: 104

Re: [SOLVED]Removing enlightenment and gnome...

Sorry I was using duckduckgo for search, didn't show anything. Google came to my rescue, those pesky little mind-reader bots.

Is this link still relevant for arch's current pkgbuild? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=76299?

Thanks

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing enlightenment and gnome...

That link is extremely out of date.

To remove them, simply reverse what you did to install them. If you used pacman -S enlightenment, use pacman -Rs enlightenment to remove it.

henk

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From: Weert, Netherlands

Registered: 2013-01-01

Posts: 334

Re: [SOLVED]Removing enlightenment and gnome...

If gnome didn't start, have you done an effort to solve the problem? If not, the same thing can happen when trying to start openbox.
Removing something just because it is not starting, without knowing why it didn't start, is not what you would call the 'Arch Way' of doing things.

If you want to know how to remove packages, there's always the wiki

jpjenkins

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Registered: 2014-03-24

Posts: 104

Re: [SOLVED]Removing enlightenment and gnome...

Thanks, I was concerned about the dependencies not removing, it makes sense to just -R the original installation!

I didn't make any effort at all henk, it's not the reason why I want to uninstall though. When gnome 3.12 is packaged up I'll give it a shot. For now, a simple window manager will suffice while I fine tune the engine.

Thanks guys.

Steef435

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Registered: 2013-08-29

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Re: [SOLVED]Removing enlightenment and gnome...

Note that Scimmia wrote -Rs, if you don't remove recursively you will end up with a lot of unneeded dependencies.