I installed GNOME on my KDE fedora install some time ago not realizing it would litter my install with gnome apps. Wondering if there’s a safe and easy way to remove them. Everyone online seems to say that removing a DE risks uninstalling a lot of stuff and thought I should ask here to be sure.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    125·
    4 months ago

    Have you thought about biting the bullet and just doing a full wipe and fresh OS install? I recently did this with a fresh, minimal Debian install, and it was so worth it.

    • Corr@lemm.eeOP
      13·
      4 months ago

      I just installed 6 months ago and I don’t feel any need or desire to do a full reinstall if I can avoid it

      • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        64·
        4 months ago

        It’s not. I’m constantly learning and making a mess. A fresh install every year or two keeps the house clean, and keeps me in good practice.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    81·
    4 months ago

    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 swap command 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.

    • Corr@lemm.eeOP
      6·
      4 months ago

      This makes sense. Will this nuke any config files I have set up already?

      Thanks for the suggestions!

      • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        4 months ago

        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.

        • Corr@lemm.eeOP
          1·
          4 months ago

          Thanks so much for the information! I really appreciate it. I’ll see about doing that when I get home tonight

      • leopold@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        No. all KDE config is in the home directory except maybe some SDDM stuff, which should be trivial to reconfigure if needed.

      • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        4 months ago

        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.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
    1·
    4 months ago

    Try to find the Fedora/yum equivalent to

    apt-get purge gnome-desktop

    apt-get autoremove

  • Successful_Try543@feddit.de
    1·
    4 months ago

    I suppose Fedora works similar to Debian handling dependencies, thus uninstalling libgtk* should trigger removing all GNOME/GTK packages and apps. Removing a metapackage, like it’s probably gnome-desktop, usually does almost nothing.

    Edit: You can reinstall the GTK apps you like to use, e.g. Firefox or LibreOffice, later, as the user config files are not going to be deleted.

    Edit 2: Maybe I’ve misunderstood: Do you want to keep the GNOME login session an desktop environment but use KDE apps like Kate instead of gedit?

    • Corr@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      4 months ago

      I want everything GNOME gone. Decided KDE was more my style

      • Successful_Try543@feddit.de
        1·
        4 months ago

        Then, as I said, removing libgtk2 and libgtk3, specifically, the corresponding packages containing these libraries, should trigger removing everything GNOME/GTK related.

  • land@lemmy.ml
    1·
    4 months ago

    A question related to this: is there a way to remove pre-installed apps on gnome? I have tried to uninstall them, but the system won’t let me.