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mrSuperEvening
Asked: 2013-10-18 15:28:49 +0800 CST

How to remove Cinnamon etc. and leave just Ubuntu?

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I have Cinnamon and many more. How can I remove them and leave just Ubuntu?

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2 Answers

  1. Genrally I would do (replace cinnamon with the other desktop enviroments, e.g. kde4):

    sudo apt-get remove cinnamon

    then:

    sudo apt-get autoremove

    Go to https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/apt-get.html and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto for more info.

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  2. I uninstalled cinnamon and when I restarted I had a computer, home & trash icon on my desktop. what I did was I went into synaptic. Make sure that you hit the all button to show ALL of the residual and installed programs. Search for cinnamon in the search bar. the installed programs will be green. what you do is you right click and scroll to the bottom where it says complete removal. After checking all the green boxes hit the apply button. It may take some time but don't worry its working. After that is done you will go to the bottom left and hit the status button and then above that scroll down to residual and click it. you will then mark all of those for complete removal. hit apply. At this point you will have to restart your computer. all of the residual information of cinnamon will be completely off and you will have your original desktop back.

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