Removing KDE [solved]

joe4ska · 2011-08-04 07:42:29

Hi everyone,
I recently tried KDE and had some major issues on my computer so I removed it using

sudo pacman -Rnsc kde

However, It appears the files remain on my HD

I suspect this because prior to KDE I ran the same command to remove Gnome and Pacman didn't have to download the files again when I switched back.

Thoughts?
Did I miss something?

Thanks,
Joe

Last edited by joe4ska (2011-08-04 08:02:29)

karol · 2011-08-04 07:44:57

You mean your cache? Those files aren't installed, but they still are taking up space on your hard drive. See 'man pacman' on how to clean you package cache.

olive · 2011-08-04 07:47:34

Pacman keep a local copy of downloaded packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg . You may empty this directory if you don't need the packages.

joe4ska · 2011-08-04 08:01:13

Oh interesting? I had no idea this stuff remained in cache.
I suppose I'll leave the cache where it is now. never know if I try KDE again this will save me some time.

Thanks Karol & Olive. I've got a lot to learn.

This only makes Arch that much cooler. A few nights ago I tried KDE then XFCE and didn't have to re-install or backup a single thing.

karol · 2011-08-04 08:03:36

Arch is a rolling release distro and that means if you want to install a package after a month or two, it will most likely be downloaded from a server and not taken from the cache, because it will get updated in the meantime.

Last edited by karol (2011-08-04 08:04:20)

joe4ska · 2011-08-04 08:12:59

Good point I might as well clean up that cache.
Arch sure is slick compared to the others. I'm fairly new to Linux and for the first year you can guess what I was using.
I've only had Arch installed for a few months. swtiching DM's is really amazing and fast.
Do all Linux distro's have this ability?

karol · 2011-08-04 08:23:47

joe4ska wrote:

I've only had Arch installed for a few months. swtiching DM's is really amazing and fast.
Do all Linux distro's have this ability?

I haven't used all that many distros, but I think that a DE is just a collection of packages, so there shouldn't be a problem in using a different one every other day. Just install and configure. If your distribution doesn't have it in its repos, it won't be so easy, but it should be doable.

Lone_Wolf · 2011-08-04 16:38:54

Tecnically all distros should be able to switch DE's easy , but there are many distros that focus on a specific DE .
fedora for example installs Gnome standard, and is finetuned to make the best use of gnome.
If you run KDE on fedora, you might miss out on several nice features.

one way to put this is that archlinux is DE agnostic, while fedora is a gnome follower.

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Removing KDE [solved]

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