I noticed several people asking how to remove KDE or XFCE completly from their installs, well this script does just that very quickly and easy.
**NOW IT ASK YOU BEFORE DESTROYING YOUR SYSTEM**
WARNING!!!
THIS SCRIPT IS NOT TESTED UNDER ALL CONDITIONS AND YOUR RESULTS MAY VARY.
I have only tested it to remove xubuntu but it should work fine with kubuntu as well.
You must have meta packages ubuntu-desktop and either kubuntu-desktop or xubuntu-desktop.
HOW TO USE:
download... http://jimmyjazz.homeip.net:808/debuntu.tar.gz
tar xvf /home/james/Desktop/debuntu.tar.gz
cd ./debuntu
to remove kubuntu...
./removekubuntu.py
to remove xubuntu... (tested and works well)
./removexubuntu.py
(please note that the above two commands will remove the respected meta packages only after comparing them to the standard ubuntu-desktop package, hence reverting you back to the standard gnome desktop, I will fix this to allow for other desktop packages at a later time)
to remove ubuntu Gnome version(yikes)... (a very bad idea!)
./removegubuntu.py
anyways try it out and leave comments if it works well for you (or doesn't)
**UPDATE***
added "removegubuntu.py" to remove Gnome version of ubuntu (not really a great idea if you ask me)
8-29-2006: Added even more safety precautions to the scripts, they should be safe for most all users now. Also I removed the gnome version removal script for the time being.
4-14-2006: Made scripts much safer by allowing apt to ask before removing packages, all the scripts are now mostly safe to use (as long as you have some small idea what you are doing).
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