Hi. I installed GNOME 2.30 and KDE with my OpenSUSE 11.4 64 bit OS. I want to remove GNOME. I went into YaST -> Software Management -> View -> Patterns -> and I tried to remove the check marks next to GNOME Desktop Environment and GNOME Base System, but it does not work.
How do I remove GNOME from my OpenSUSE 11.4 64 bit OS?
Please reply with detailed step by step instructions. Thank you.
You will find this quite difficult. Put it this way, I wouldn’t try myself. The problem is all the dependencies. There is no harm leaving it installed and just using kde. But you should make sure you are using these settings
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Display_window_Manager/display-manager-kde4.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Display_window_Manager/window-manager-kde4.jpg
Do not remove it, just do not use it (it is only a few MBs on disk). And on your next install (when you move to the next openSUSE) do not install it then.
On 04/28/2011 02:36 PM, wellywu wrote:
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> Hi. I installed GNOME 2.30 and KDE with my OpenSUSE 11.4 64 bit OS. I
> want to remove GNOME. I went into YaST -> Software Management -> View ->
> Patterns -> and I tried to remove the check marks next to GNOME Desktop
> Environment and GNOME Base System, but it does not work.
explain “does not work”…did you get an error? a pop-up asking you to
make a decision? or did it run run run after you clicked the “Accept”
button, but when finished and rebooted there was Gnome still?
or what?
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On 2011-04-28 14:36, wellywu wrote:
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> Hi. I installed GNOME 2.30 and KDE with my OpenSUSE 11.4 64 bit OS. I
> want to remove GNOME.
What for?
> How do I remove GNOME from my OpenSUSE 11.4 64 bit OS?
Select package by package those that belong to gnome.
> Please reply with detailed step by step instructions. Thank you.
Mmm… no. Siesta time 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Alright. I will leave GNOME 2.30 alone and I will not use it.
Sorry If am off topic but in my opinion, Although I use KDE, it will be better not to remove it(Gnome 3) . If you have difficulties/problems it would be better to write your problems here and start to solve one by one(about Gnome 3) with our help.
If I’m not mistaken the OP already did a ‘dup’ back from gnome3
Which IMO is an added complication to the request here
That is correct. I did a zypper dup back to GNOME 2.30. Everything works right now. I guess that I will leave GNOME alone and I will continue to use KDE. Thank you.