Can't remove gnome

#1

I installed gnome and gnome extras and it doesn’t run as well as xfce.
I tried # pacman -R gnome gnome-extras but it get this…

[davek@optiplex ~]$ su
Password: 
root@optiplex /home/davek # pacman -R gnome gnome-extra
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: gnome-online-miners: removing tracker breaks dependency 'tracker'
:: network-manager-applet: removing networkmanager breaks dependency 'networkmanager'
:: xfce4-settings: removing gnome-themes-extra breaks dependency 'gnome-themes-standard'
1 root@optiplex /home/davek # pacman -R gnome                                               :(
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: gnome-devel-docs: removing yelp breaks dependency 'yelp'
:: gnome-online-miners: removing tracker breaks dependency 'tracker'
:: gnome-tweaks: removing gnome-settings-daemon breaks dependency 'gnome-settings-daemon'
:: network-manager-applet: removing networkmanager breaks dependency 'networkmanager'
:: xfce4-settings: removing gnome-themes-extra breaks dependency 'gnome-themes-standard'
1 root@optiplex /home/davek #

Looks like I should just leave it alone and just don’t log into gnome?

#2

Try remove a packages and its dependencies which are not required by other installed package…

#3

@kawika
According to what your terminal indicates, I would eliminate what pacman says and reinstall the packages that are from xfce4 and others from gnome that are important, to my humble understanding, they are:

networkmanager
xfce4-settings

Of course, say: all at your own risk!

#4

Tracker is also in the Xfce install so if gnome-online-miners breaks it then maybe it also needs to be reinstalled. But i think you are right on the others. I checked the packages on a new install.

#5

Thanks for the advice, but I’ll leave it alone.

#6

Precisely, at dawn I uninstalled Plasma and I had no problem, so I left xfce4 and lxde without problems.

#7

@judd I have done the same and i don’t see any reason why if necessary you couldn’t go into tty and use pacman to install these first before logging into the desktop.

#8

How about just ctrl+alt+f2, force remove gnome and Gnome extras then without rebooting reinstall xfce4 and possibly xfce4-goodies if you use that, THEN reboot?

Edit: that’s how I removed cinnamon before (last install. Did a clean Xfce installthis time). Xfce4 will pull back network manager again.

#9

The EOS installer will remove Gnome and install XFCE the quick and clean way. But I understand if someone wants knowledge from messing around with other ways, been there done that, my messing around days are over now that my brain has knowledge of the universe. :laughing:

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