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opu 웃
Asked: 2013-12-06 22:45:36 +0800 CST

How to uninstall lightdm?

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I removed Unity from my computer. But still lightdm is showing when I typed sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm. I want to remove it. What can I do?

12.04

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    To remove an application in Ubuntu you can type in a terminal:

    sudo apt-get remove lightdm

    or remove it with all its configuration files:

    sudo apt-get purge lightdm
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  2. If you do a

    sudo apt-get remove lightdm

    instead leaving out the purge, if anything does go wrong and you cannot log into a graphical session you can always drop to a terminal and restore LightDM.

    After the remove if everything works properly you can then purge the config files ..

    If you will do -

    sudo apt-get purge lightdm

    or

    sudo aptitude purge lightdm

    then you cant restore it back without installing.

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  3. What about 

    sudo apt-get remove lightdm

    I think that should work, isn't it?

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  4. Do 

    sudo apt-get remove lightdm
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