Re: Uninstalling Gnome

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:

> On Mon 28 Nov 2016 at 21:44:00 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> When I freshly installed Debian on my present system, I chose Gnome as my
>> Desktop manager, then I switched to Openbox.  To free space, now I want to
>> remove all those Gnome packages that I haven't used any more but am not sure
>> what of them I may delete without perturbing the system.  How can I know?
>> More
>> in general, is there a way to know what packages one is not using and so can
>> be
>> removed?
>
> apt-get purge gnome gnome-shell
> apt-get autoremove
>
> And go from there with 'dpkg -l'.


Thanks.  But, my question is: how can I be sure and safe that doing so will not
perturbing my system?

Rodolfo