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HDArtworks

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Registered: 2015-04-20

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How can i completely remove Xfce after installing Mate

Hi.
Today i install Mate and i like it.
Now Could anyone tell m how can i remove Xfce?
I run Tese command:

sudo pacman -Rdds xfce4 xfce4-goodies

Is that correct?
Because i still can see About Xfce4 in Mate.
So, i think xfce4 not remove completely yet.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: How can i completely remove Xfce after installing Mate

Depends on how you installed it.

Why in the world would you override dependencies (the dd in that command)?

HDArtworks

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Re: How can i completely remove Xfce after installing Mate

I install it with this command:

sudo pacman -S xfce4 xfce4-goodies

I use dd because i saw in the internet dd command will remove completey removed app.
I this wrong?!

Sorry for my bad language.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: How can i completely remove Xfce after installing Mate

If that's how you installed it, then it should have been removed just fine.

Read the man page and understand what command you're running. Don't just blindly copy things off the internet. Yes, the command is wrong for normal usage.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: How can i completely remove Xfce after installing Mate

pacman did just what you told him to do. 'sudo pacman -Rdds xfce4 xfce4-goodies' removes just these two packages / package groups, but not their dependencies, even if they're not needed by any other package.

'The internet' is rather big, so please provide links to the pages you cite, even if it's the Arch wiki.

archgeesk

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Registered: 2015-06-04

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Re: How can i completely remove Xfce after installing Mate

Did you fix it?
Probably what you want to do is # pacman -Rs xfce4 xfce4-goodies
You could optionally add "n" so no backups of the xfce4 config files would be made, but I'm not sure that is wise.
I'm just another newbie but you can find this stuff on [link] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman [/link]

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: How can i completely remove Xfce after installing Mate

pacman has also a manpage :-)