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Install KDE 4.5, remove Gnome?
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:40 pm
by madgenius
Hi All,
Just moved from openSuSE 11.3 to LMDE. It's very user-friendly, and am liking it so far.
As a KDE fanboy though, I'm finding some of the things Gnome does a bit irritating. Is there any way I can install KDE 4.5, and safely get rid of everthing Gnome?
I know that a
will install KDE for me, but the version in the repository seems to be KDE 4.4, and not the latest KDE 4.5
Thanks in advance.
Re: Install KDE 4.5, remove Gnome?
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:43 pm
by willie42
I dont know of anyway besides blowing the partition and installing a fresh install. Blowing the partition will get rid of anything Gnome.
Re: Install KDE 4.5, remove Gnome?
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:53 pm
by Elisa
Try
sudo apt-get install kde-desktop
but as a
first I'd slap the keyword
kde
in your gnome package manager
Synaptic to let it find the proper stuff.
BTW many apps work in gnome, like
k3b and many others
Re: Install KDE 4.5, remove Gnome?
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 3:10 pm
by madgenius
Thanks Elisa, will give that a try.
Know that KDE apps will work in Gnome with the kdelibs installed - it's the Gnome DE I object to
Re: Install KDE 4.5, remove Gnome?
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 3:21 pm
by lauren
Hi!
As I wrote in
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=59461
I now have Gnome and KDE 4.5.1
My way: I
1) made partitions "/" and "/home" with geparted-live
2) installed Mint 10 from live-CD
3) installed "kde-full" with Gnome / System / Software Manager
(be patient, it will take some time)
4) Applications / Administration /Login Screen: Unlock ->
+ Show the screen for choosing who will log in
+ Select: "User Defined Session" as default session
5) reboot
6) lower panel: choose session KDE or Gnome , ...
Re: Install KDE 4.5, remove Gnome?
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 10:07 pm
by madgenius
Thanks to everyone for the advice.
Got KDE installed, but is there any way to safely remove everything of Gnome?
Re: Install KDE 4.5, remove Gnome?
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:47 pm
by Transitman
Go to this website -
http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/purekde - and follow the directions given.
Yes I know it refers to Ubuntu, but it should get you where you want to be with a pure KDE system.
Re: Install KDE 4.5, remove Gnome?
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:07 am
by sumski
madgenius wrote:Thanks to everyone for the advice.
Got KDE installed, but is there any way to safely remove everything of Gnome?
open synaptic, remove gnome, gnome-core and gnome-desktop-enviroment ; after that you should see a lot of packages in the auto removable section , check all of them , and remove them(you
should check do you want to remove
all of the autoremovable packages) , or; apt-get remove gnome gnome-core gnome-desktop-enviroment ; apt-get autoremove
this should remove most of gnome
Re: Install KDE 4.5, remove Gnome?
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:19 am
by sumski
you can also try apt-get autoremove --purge gnome* , and if you just want to see what actions would be performed apt-get -s autoremove --purge gnome*
Re: Install KDE 4.5, remove Gnome?
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 2:45 pm
by mfdemicco
If you want a pure KDE edition, I would recommend aptosid instead of LMDE.
Re: Install KDE 4.5, remove Gnome?
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:31 am
by deathgoddg
Is there a way I can have GNOME and KDE but remove the softwares of KDE that I dont need?