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Saturday, September 22, 2012

How to completely remove Unity from Ubuntu

How to completely remove Unity from Ubuntu:

Make sure to have another Desktop installed!

Remove the packages for Unity:

sudo apt-get remove unity unity-2d-places unity-2d unity-2d-panel unity-2d-spread unity-asset-pool unity-services unity-lens-files unity-lens-music unity-lens-applications gir1.2-unity-4.0 unity-common indicator-sound indicator-power indicator-appmenu libindicator6 indicator-application evolution-indicator indicator-datetime indicator-messages libnux-1.0-0 nuxtools

2 comments:

  1. This still tries to remove ubuntu-desktop:

    Here is my console output:

    sudo apt-get remove unity unity-2d-places unity-2d unity-2d-panel unity-2d-spread unity-asset-pool unity-services unity-lens-files unity-lens-music unity-lens-applications gir1.2-unity-4.0 unity-common indicator-sound indicator-power indicator-appmenu indicator-application evolution-indicator indicator-datetime indicator-messages
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    Virtual packages like 'gir1.2-unity-4.0' can't be removed
    Package evolution-indicator is not installed, so not removed
    Package unity-2d-places is not installed, so not removed
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
    indicator-application indicator-appmenu indicator-datetime
    indicator-messages indicator-power indicator-sound
    indicator-status-provider-mc5 indicator-status-provider-pidgin
    libunity-2d-private0 libunity-core-5.0-5 ubuntu-desktop unity unity-2d
    unity-2d-panel unity-2d-shell unity-2d-spread unity-asset-pool unity-common
    unity-lens-applications unity-lens-files unity-lens-music unity-services
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 22 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
    After this operation, 10,9 MB disk space will be freed.
    Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

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  2. This is why you need another desktop installed. The ubuntu-desktop is the default for Unity. So you can download something like Gnome instead. http://blog.burrowsapps.com/2012/09/ubuntu-install-gnome-3.html

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