Removing KDE from FC13

[new2fedor]

Hi...
i have FC 13 with both KDE and Gnome loaded..
over the lat couple of years of using linux... i've found Gnome better suitable for my needs than KDE...
and now i'm stuck!!
Wanted to know - is it possible to uninstall KDE and just keep Gnome???

[William Haller]

You can use yum erase to remove any package. The only caveat is a big one - examine the list of dependent packages that it is going to remove and be sure to answer N if you see anything that you need for something else.

It is easy to add things with yum install. It is always risky to remove things with yum erase without paying careful attention.

You should be able to remove some of the extra kde packages without any dependency problems but as you get to the core packages you will probably find that yum will be trying to remove things you care about when it takes kde out. You can keep track of these and then install them again or just leave the offending bits of kde that would take out something else.

You can do a yum list installed and redirect it to a file. Then you can get a list of everything with kde in it

grep kde file

Add to this things like phonon, qt, amarok, and other packages without a kde in them.

Although, from what I hear they are doing to Gnome in F15, you might want to leave KDE installed.

[DavidMcCann]

I seem to remember using "yum groupremove kde", but you had to do "yum install gdm" afterwards as Fedora used that for both desktops.

[new2fedor]

thank u guys...

[marko]

The best way would be to use yum grouplist to see the installed groups on your machine

yum grouplist

they are the ones under the heading "Installed Groups:" (the other section lists the groups that are available but not yet installed)

the group you want to remove would be KDE Software Compilation

so use groupremove to take it off:

yum groupremove "KDE Software Compilation"

The reason that using grouplist is a good idea is because the KDE people keep renaming the thing all the time so this way you
get the current name. If fact I'm not sure if Fedora 13 has that group called "KDE Software Compilation", I'm just calling it that
since that's what my Fedora 14 shows.

[JohnVV]

also BE WARNED
Fedora 13 will very soon hit "End of Life " in about 2 to 3 months

so you might want to think about reinstalling with fedora 14 and not installing kde

Though i have found I LIKE a bunch of kde / qt4 applications
BUT NOT THE DESKTOP !!!
so i install both and run Gnome as default

[new2fedor]

hmm... i think i'll stick to both, right now and use gnome as default...
however, i did find that the notes thing that fc13 had on gnome, is not there in fc14.. !!! not on the add to panel list atleast... so i'm make doing with knotes...