Removing x windows, gnome

[bghayad]

I am running Asterisk IP Telephony of Fedora Core 7 and 8, and I have been asked to remove x-windows and gnome, but I am afriad of the side effect for such step. I googled some and found that to remove x-windows I can use:

yum groupremove 'X Window System'

But does this safe?
How to remove gnome?

Any advise?
Regards
Bilal

[sidebrnz]

Will there be any side effects if you remove the X Windowing System? Well, yes, you might say so. You won't have a GUI any more, just a CLI. And as far as removing Gnome, I suspect that this would happen when you removed X, as Gnome has X as a dependency. What I don't understand is why, by the Sacred Chair of Steve Ballmer, you wuld need to uninstall X and Gnome to install Asterisk IP Telephony.

[Hlingler]

Um... I'm not so sure that a groupremove of X Window System is such a Good Idea™©® since it may also remove mouse and keyboard support. But maybe I'm wrong about that. Groupremove of GNOME may actually be safer.

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[RupertPupkin]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

I'm not so sure that a groupremove of X Window System is such a Good Idea™©® since it may also remove mouse and keyboard support.

No, you can still use the mouse in console mode (via gpm), and obviously the keyboard will still work. Run a console framebuffer and you'd even have some of the usual graphics capabilities (view images, videos, etc).

[bghayad]

"Why I need to remove the x windows and its relation with Asterisk IP Telephony":
It is because the x windows effect on the performance which effect on the IVR and hence the DTMF and capturing the dialed digits correctly.

Regards
Bilal

[marinaccio]

su -
enter your root password
yum -y groupremove "X Window System"

It's good to experiment, that's the best way to learn in my opinion. Don't worry, if you screw something up, you'll just learn more, and I bet next time you won't make the same mistake.