HowTo: Fully Uninstall the ubuntu-desktop meta-package

[markp1989]

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purexfce
Bookmark this psychocats site.

thanks

[Kubischbuntu]

I originally installed Ubuntu Jaunty - and then decided to try the KDE desktop so installed that. I have not used gnome since and actually ran the update to Lucid in KDE.

I have now decided that I like KDE better so want to get rid of all the gnomes. Given this history - Can I use the method mentioned above for that - or do I need to do a clean Kubuntu install??

[aysiu]

I originally installed Ubuntu Jaunty - and then decided to try the KDE desktop so installed that. I have not used gnome since and actually ran the update to Lucid in KDE.

I have now decided that I like KDE better so want to get rid of all the gnomes. Given this history - Can I use the method mentioned above for that - or do I need to do a clean Kubuntu install??

You can use this method here:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purekde

[Kubischbuntu]

Hi,

wow that is a lot of stuff for one command line command

One more question - i noticed that at the end it does an apt-get install kubuntu - why is that? Given that I am already running Kubuntu (see history in prev post) If I run it again will it just ignore the things that are already installed?

[aysiu]

It's tacked on just off on the off-chance that something gets removed. If nothing gets removed, the last command will do nothing.

[Kubischbuntu]

OK here is what I get back:

[sudo] password for kubisch:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package compiz is not installed, so not removed
Package compiz-core is not installed, so not removed
Package compiz-fusion-plugins-main is not installed, so not removed
Package compiz-gnome is not installed, so not removed
Package compiz-plugins is not installed, so not removed
Package compizconfig-backend-gconf is not installed, so not removed
Package evolution is not installed, so not removed
Package evolution-couchdb is not installed, so not removed
Package evolution-exchange is not installed, so not removed
Package evolution-indicator is not installed, so not removed
Package evolution-plugins is not installed, so not removed
Package libcompizconfig0 is not installed, so not removed
Package notification-daemon is not installed, so not removed
Package scrollkeeper is not installed, so not removed
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libxine1: Depends: libxine1-x (= 1.1.17-1ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
kubisch@squarebear:~$


Any ideas?

[Kubischbuntu]

Hi,

sorry my question may have been a bit short in the last post.

Basically while I verbally understand what the response is saying - I am a bit too new to this to comprehend what this means and what I should be doing about it.

Could anybody give me a hint please?

Thanx a lot

[aysiu]

Usually that kind of error message indicates you have conflicting software sources (otherwise known as software repositories--basically online servers Ubuntu uses to fetch software you want to install).

Can you post the output of these commands?

sudo apt-get update
cat /etc/apt/sources.list

[Kubischbuntu]

Sorry for the delay - I posted the question from work

OK here it goes:

For the first one I get:

kubisch@squarebear:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for kubisch:
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_NZ
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_NZ
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_NZ
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_NZ
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_NZ
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_NZ
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_NZ
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_NZ
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_NZ
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_NZ
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_NZ
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_NZ
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release [38.5kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release [32.5kB]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages [115kB]
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages [14B]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources [49.9kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages [8,371B]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources [2,392B]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages [14B]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources [14B]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages [2,067B]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages [14B]
Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources [1,300B]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages [815B]
Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources [780B]
Get:19 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages [14B]
Get:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources [14B]
Fetched 252kB in 16s (15.4kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done


For the second one I get:
kubisch@squarebear:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release i386 (20090420.1)]/ jaunty main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security main restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security multiverse
# deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ karmic free non-free

By the way how do you make those scrollable text boxes in your posts?

[Kubischbuntu]

Bump!

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