ubuntu server desktop GUI?

[fondoo]

i just successfull installed ubuntu server edition v7.04.
i was able to install gnome desktop and now i would like to go back to the command line interface. is it possible to flip back? thanks in advance.

[Dr Small]

Maybe?
sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop --purge

[fondoo]

sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop --purge

did not work. any idea?

rebooted the server and still got the desktop gui

[daniel of sarnia]

yeah that's because ubuntu-desktop is a meta package. Not the actual desktop and xorg packages, just a link to install them. You're going to have to uninstall all of the packages by hand as far as I know. Unless you installed them with aptitude. Then you can sudo aptitude remove ubuntu-desktop but if you used apt-get you have to remove all the different packages which I'm not sure what all the gnome packages are but if you do something like sudo apt-get remove xorg*
That should stop the gui from starting.

Oh and you might also want to
sudo apt-get autoremove

After and that might get ride of unused packages related to X so