Uninstalling KDE

[Proxit]

have Gnome on my Fedora and as much as i like KDE, It's a little slow for me. How would i go about uninstalling KDE?

[PabloTwo]

su
yum groupremove "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"

There is no guarantee that doing this won't take out some packages that might break other things on your system. Have a long hard look at what yum lists it is 'removing' before you type 'y' to the "Is this OK" prompt.

[Proxit]

So there is no smarter way of doing this?

[PabloTwo]

There must be. I just tried doing that command on my system, which doesn't even have KDE installed. I installed from an F12/XFCE Live CD spin, and here is what it wanted to remove. I wouldn't try the command I showed you.

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================================================================
 Package                            Arch               Version                                   Repository             Size
=============================================================================================================================
Removing:
 NetworkManager-gnome               i686               1:0.7.996-6.git20091021.fc12              installed             1.4 M
 cups-pk-helper                     i686               0.0.4-9.fc12                              installed              72 k
 dejavu-sans-fonts                  noarch             2.30-2.fc12                               installed             4.4 M
 dejavu-sans-mono-fonts             noarch             2.30-2.fc12                               installed             1.0 M
 dejavu-serif-fonts                 noarch             2.30-2.fc12                               installed             2.3 M
 gstreamer-ffmpeg                   i686               0.10.9-1.fc12                             installed             454 k
 gstreamer-plugins-good             i686               0.10.17-3.fc12                            installed             3.7 M
 phonon-backend-xine                i686               4.3.1-102.fc12                            installed             396 k
 polkit-gnome                       i686               0.95-0.git20090913.6.fc12                 installed             279 k
Removing for dependencies:
 cheese                             i686               2.28.1-1.fc12                             installed             5.7 M
 evolvotron                         i686               0.6.1-3.fc12                              installed             2.1 M
 farsight2                          i686               0.0.16-1.fc12                             installed             454 k
 gdm                                i686               1:2.28.1-25.fc12                          installed             4.3 M
 gnome-session                      i686               2.28.0-2.fc12                             installed             1.6 M
 libpurple                          i686               2.6.4-2.fc12                              installed              22 M
 mozilla-vlc                        i686               1.0.3-1.fc12                              installed              82 k
 parole                             i686               0.1.99-1.fc12                             installed             653 k
 phonon                             i686               4.3.1-102.fc12                            installed             427 k
 pidgin                             i686               2.6.4-2.fc12                              installed             2.8 M
 plymouth-gdm-hooks                 i686               0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.19.fc12                installed              171 
 pulseaudio-gdm-hooks               i686               0.9.21-1.fc12                             installed              385 
 qt-devel                           i686               1:4.5.3-9.fc12                            installed              27 M
 qt-x11                             i686               1:4.5.3-9.fc12                            installed              41 M
 quodlibet                          i686               2.1-3.fc12                                installed             3.0 M
 system-config-services             noarch             0.99.41-1.fc12                            installed             659 k
 vlc                                i686               1.0.3-1.fc12                              installed             4.7 M
 xfce4-xfswitch-plugin              i686               0.0.1-1.fc12                              installed              41 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================
Remove       27 Package(s)
Reinstall     0 Package(s)
Downgrade     0 Package(s)

Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!

---------- Post added at 08:33 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 07:54 PM CST ----------

If you installed KDE after you're initial Fedora install, it's possible to figure out the group of files that comprised the KDE installation at that time by doing a search of the yum log ( /var/log/yum.log ) and zeroing in on a specific Month/Day/Time and then removing just those files. If KDE was installed with your initial install, there's no sorting it out so easily.

[rdieter]

yum remove kdelibs

should pull out everything kde-related.

[nightmarcus]

Originally Posted by rdieter

yum remove kdelibs

should pull out everything kde-related.

I'm doing the same thing and while that does get rid of a lot of it, for some reason it didn't kill it all. I'm doing yum remove kde* and that seems to be getting more of it.