Is that possible to remove Nautilus/Gedit/Treminal ?

[LABcqX]

You could run something like

sudo apt-get remove -s nautilus

to see exactly what would be removed. The "-s" means "No action; perform a simulation of events that would occur but do not actually change the system."

How did you learn of this command? I have tried the MAN command but it does not say anything about the -s option.

[arpanaut]

Try 'man apt-get"
w/o quotes

[oldos2er]

oldos2er, do you know of exactly what ubuntu-desktop does?

All of the *buntu-desktop packages are metapackages; they don't really do much by themselves. If you run

apt-cache show ubuntu-desktop

you'll see a large list of packages that ubuntu-desktop installs.

Is the ubuntu-desktop of unused nature when not upgrading and after the desktop environment has already been installed?

I believe so. It's so much easier to run #apt-get install ubuntu-desktop than #apt-get install huge-list-of-packages

Big Thanks for posting this command because it is command I find very useful.

sudo apt-get remove -s

You're welcome.

[ThrashManiac]

Wow, thanks for replies, people!

So, the bottom line - ubuntu desktop can actually be removed, because of it's meta-nature, and the unity will not suffer?

P.S. Debain also has some kind of deep file-manager desktop integration?

[oldos2er]

If you want to upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu, you will need to have ubuntu-desktop installed. With that caveat, if you're removing a package and see that ubuntu-desktop is going to be removed, that's not a cause for concern.

[ThrashManiac]

I was curious, so I tested it under the VirtualBox:

* removed gedit/nautilus/gnome-terminal via synaptic

* installed gnome3-shell via command line, because those 3 packages have brought the GUI down

* startx caused an error

Conclusion: those 3 packages are nailed into the system, and there's no way to get rid of them. End of story. RIP.