I want to remove xfce from my debian 12 system. What is the best way to do it?

  • AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I think that: sudo apt purge xfce4* sudo apt autoremove

    should do it.

    I’ll point out that the other answers here are also correct. It depends on how you want to clean it from your system.

    “apt remove” will only remove the packages, not the config files
    “apt purge” will remove the packages and config files
    “apt autoremove” will clean up the orphaned dependencies
    “xfce4” will only remove the DE
    “xfce4*” will remove the DE and most of the other packages that come with xfce

  • Prismey@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    You can run sudo apt purge xfce4 (if you wan to remove all of its components and dependencies) or sudo apt remove xfce4. <br> If you don’t have an other DE installed, I suggest you find one and do it form the other DE, because if you don’t, you’re gonna end up without a graphical environement, and you would have to do everything frop the terminal.