Removing Cinnamon and changes to KDE

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Using 12.3 with KDE 4.10

First issue:

I just tried cinnamon using http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cyberorg:/cinnamon/openSUSE_12.3/home:cyberorg:cinnamon.repo and ended up not liking it. When I went to remove it via command line I got this error.


sudo zypper remove cinnamon
root's password:
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following package is going to be REMOVED:
  cinnamon 

1 package to remove.
After the operation, 7.4 MiB will be freed.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y
(1/1) Removing cinnamon-1.8.5-1.2 .............................................[done]
Additional rpm output:
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.Tracker.Extract.gschema.xml: Error on line 5 char 1: <enum id='org.freedesktop.Tracker.TrackerVerbosity'> not (yet) defined..  This entire file has been ignored.

How do I remove everything that installed once I added Cinnamon and is the error something to worry about?

Second issue:

I’m trying out different desktops at the moment. After installing cinnamon I switched to my KDE desktop and noticed my network manager has been replaced with gnome’s. I thought it was possible to install different desktop environments without any collisions? How can I fix this issue while making sure nothing else was changed and ensure it doesn’t happen again?

Thanks!

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On 06/09/2013 07:56 PM, Static2k wrote:
> ensure it
> doesn’t happen again?

i have a different user for every different desktop…and, that user
ONLY logs into that desktop…if i don’t like the desktop
environment i delete it and the user…

but, ymmv–i mentioned that in another thread within the last month
and someone laughed about it as being unnecessary… but, i no longer
get unintended collisions since i started that (about four or five
years ago), as you did [shrug]…

–
dd

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Yes! I’m wondering about unnoticeable changes since plasma-desktop uses 78MB of memory now instead of the 100MB+ after installing cinnamon.

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You can use this terminal command to see the order of installs and updates of applications (Most recent to oldest):

rpm -q --all --last

You can see the Zypp history Log here:

less -R /var/log/zypp/history

I have more zypper, RPM and some YaST help here: Zypper Command - Zypper Package Management Menu System

I can say that unless I was running out of disk space, I don’t uninstall desktops I am not using and I have had good luck just installing all of the ones from openSUSE when installing from the DVD, mainly for testing, but I do use some Gnome apps. The error message you show does not appear to be a problem as far as I can tell. Perhaps you can tell more looking at the logs.

Thank You,

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Thanks! I wouldn’t mind keeping the desktops if they didn’t collide with each other. How can this be prevented?

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Strictly speaking, if it does not come on the openSUSE DVD or Live disk, it could create a problem to remove even if you get it from a OBS repository and its for sure not much thought was given in removing it after it was installed. I am serious when I say, if its not causing a problem, I would keep it installed even if it is not being used. I reinstall openSUSE on each new release, so its only eight months or so I need to live with such a thing anyway and the whole system gets redone in my case. openSUSE is so frugal in using disk space when compared to Windows, a disk larger that 80 GB may be all you need for just about forever, not including video files of course.

Thank You,