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Kempe
Asked: 2012-12-15 05:19:35 +0800 CST

How to Remove elementary desktop environment?

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I'm running ubuntu 12.10 and yesterday I installed elementary from ppa:elementary-os/daily. I later realized that elementary replaces the stock nautilus with another version that looks misplaced in Unity which is my main environment.

Any one know how to remove all elementary related packages? I tried with ppa-purge which didn't work, so I tried to purge elementary* that still left most of the packages I think, at least the dock (plank) and the desktop Environment (Pantheon).

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  1. Best Answer

    There's a way to remove all packages installed through a ppa and restore the original ones.

    1. sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

    2. sudo ppa-purge ppa:elementary-os/daily

      If daily was installed

      or

    sudo ppa-purge ppa:/elementary-os/stable

    If elementary os stable was installed.

    That's it.

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  2. Install Synaptic Package Manager: sudo apt-get install synaptic Type synaptic to launch it. Search for elementary and select complete removal on the check box. Apply the changes. Done!

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  3. Open a Terminal window:

    • Type software-properties-gtk then press Enter

    • Locate the elementary PPA uncheck the box and then click on Remove, enter your password, close the window.

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    • Then run sudo apt-get update in the Terminal window.

    If you don't remember which packages you picked from the PPA use Synaptic.

    In the Terminal window type gksu synaptic enter your password and once the Synaptic window open search for "elementary", then sort the packages so that the installed ones show up at the top, then uninstall them.

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