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Removing GNOME packages from KDE install
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Uninstall the gnome desktop package, reinstall the kde desktop package and that should pull the overlapping dependencies. Might need to do this from a virtual terminal, not in the desktop environment.
Or reinstall the OS.
Edit: there's also
dnf swapcommand available for fedora, I'm not really familiar with it's behavior or how it acts when both DE are already installed, but maybe that could be a lead.Edit 2: after doing reading, I'm confident you can just
dnf remove @gnome-desktop. The .config files will not be impacted. Applications with overlapping KDE dependencies will belong to two groups, and the operation will keep the ones that include the KDE group. I still recommend a backup.This makes sense. Will this nuke any config files I have set up already?
Thanks for the suggestions!
Hey op, after doing reading, I'm confident you can just
dnf remove @gnome-desktop. The .config files will not be impacted. Applications with overlapping KDE dependencies will belong to two groups, and the operation will keep the ones that include the KDE group. I still recommend a backup.Thanks so much for the information! I really appreciate it. I'll see about doing that when I get home tonight
It shouldn't but I'm hesitant to say it won't. Back up all the things you don't want to lose, this is not a risk free maneuver. However in my limited experience it was the opposite - it'll remove the applications, but you will still have now-useless config files from the removed environment in place taking up space.
No. all KDE config is in the home directory except maybe some SDDM stuff, which should be trivial to reconfigure if needed.
Thanks both for the information and the confidence. I went ahead and deleted the gnome packages and nothing seems broken so far. The
dnf remove @gnome-destopdidn't work, butdnf remove gnome-*worked. I made sure all the packages being removed were ones I no longer wanted and all looks well!