How can I complete remove gnome and all of its subprograms?

Question

I have Kubuntu 12.04.

And I had installed gnome with sudo apt-get install gnome.

How can I complete remove this?

Looks like just put a sudo apt-get purge gnome will not solve the case. Because will remove just all gnome* packages and subprograms like brasero or seahorse would be still alive.

How can I complete remove gnome and all of its subprograms?

Answer 1

try

$ sudo apt-get remove gnome

or

$ sudo apt-get remove gnome*

you can always use the manual for more information

$ man apt-get

Answer 2

You can remove gnome packages by:

apt-get remove gnome-session gnome gnome-shell

Then apt-get can remove dependency that have been automatically installed and are not needed anymore with the autoremove command:

apt-get autoremove

Answer 3

First, check what is going to be removed

sudo dpkg -l | grep .gnome.

If you are ok with it, run this command

sudo apt autoremove --purge gnome*

Command explanation

# dpkg -l       lists all installed packages
# grep .gnome.   filters, so that only packages with keyword gnome within their names, listed
# purge         removes mentioned package
# autoremove    tries to remove dependency packages

Answer 4

This question was answered here: How to remove the Ubuntu Gnome desktop after making the switch to KDE?

Maybe it should be moved to http://askubuntu.com