How do I uninstall KDE from OpenSUSE 11?

[xjake83]

Hello, I installed OpenSUSE 11 with the Gnome desktop, but later wanted to try out KDE and installed it via the "one-click" installation of KDE on the OpenSUSE website, but now I don't want it and would like it completely removed from my system and just have Gnome.. I can't figure out how to do this, please help.

[snakedriver]

Originally Posted by xjake83

Hello, I installed OpenSUSE 11 with the Gnome desktop, but later wanted to try out KDE and installed it via the "one-click" installation of KDE on the OpenSUSE website, but now I don't want it and would like it completely removed from my system and just have Gnome.. I can't figure out how to do this, please help.

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in Yast use the filter & go to Patterns; select the KDE patterns & uncheck them
in the right window delete the rpms if they remain
if some give a dependency issue, leave it as it is needed for some app in Gnome
accept

[devnullv2]

is there a way to accomplish this via the cli with zypper?

also, is there a way to have bash completion with zypper (for the packages, not the application's options).

[Barry_Nichols]

Hi,

I did similar (the opposite way round had KDE tried Gnome).

I removed Gnome as advised, but it was very messy, I had to check what the dependencies were because some where Gnome dependencies, so I removed them first. I still didn't remove Gnome completely.

I hope there is an easier way.

Regards,
Barry.

On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:16:02 GMT, Barry Nichols
<Barry_Nichols@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>Hi,
>
>I did similar (the opposite way round had KDE tried Gnome).
>
>I removed Gnome as advised, but it was very messy, I had to check what
>the dependencies were because some where Gnome dependencies, so I
>removed them first. I still didn't remove Gnome completely.
>
>I hope there is an easier way.
>
>Regards,
>Barry.

IME it seems that some parts of yast are dependant on gnome and some
parts are dependant on KDE. I expect that by the time you have
removed those dependencies you pretty well may not have yast. Maybe
that even break zypper.
Personally i would prefer that yast sit directly on X. I doubt that
even a chorus of upset users could do anything to change things.