On Mon 28 Nov 2016 at 21:44:00 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > When I freshly installed Debian on my present system, I chose Gnome as my > Desktop manager, then I switched to Openbox. To free space, now I want to > remove all those Gnome packages that I haven't used any more but am not sure > what of them I may delete without perturbing the system. How can I know? > More > in general, is there a way to know what packages one is not using and so can > be > removed?
apt-get purge gnome gnome-shell apt-get autoremove And go from there with 'dpkg -l'. -- Brian.
