Installion: How To Uninstall ubuntu-gnome-desktop On Ubuntu 16.10

How To Uninstall ubuntu-gnome-desktop On Ubuntu 16.10

To uninstall ubuntu-gnome-desktop just follow these instructions.

Are you having problems? You can always add ubuntu-gnome-desktopagain by following the instructions at this link.

sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-gnome-desktop

This will remove just the ubuntu-gnome-desktop package itself.

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove ubuntu-gnome-desktop

This will remove the ubuntu-gnome-desktop package and any other dependant packages which are no longer needed.

If you also want to delete your local/config files for ubuntu-gnome-desktop then this will work.

Caution! Purged config/data can not be restored by reinstalling the package.

sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-gnome-desktop

Or similarly, like this ubuntu-gnome-desktop

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove ubuntu-gnome-desktop

Package	ubuntu-gnome-desktop
Version	0.71
Maintainer	Ubuntu GNOME Developers <[email protected]>
Description	The Ubuntu GNOME metapackage
Distro	ubuntu
Release	yakkety
Repo	universe
Section	universe/metapackages