I have installed gnome-shell and want to remove ubuntu-desktop. How do I do that without destroying gnome-shell? Because, right now, I got many duplicates, e.g. two software updater and two system settings.
Ubuntu – How to remove ubuntu-desktop completely and retain gnome-shell
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The best solution to your problem is to install Ubuntu 12.04 as Jeremy suggested above. Rather than spend countless hours trying to find a way to undo the damage you can start fresh. You can try to upgrade but if it's broken now it may be just as broken when you get done upgrading. Really it's easier to start with a clean install and avoid using packages that aren't meant to be used with your version of ubuntu. 12.04 is nearly out of beta anyways and will be supported much longer than 11.10.
there are two possibilities.
when you installed themes via scripts provided by author or zip files, they would either copied into
~/.local/share/themes/ or /usr/share/themes/
you need to go to those folders and find the corresponding theme names to delete them.
please be careful, this themes folder contains GTK+ themes also.
Best Answer
First, install the full ubuntu-gnome-desktop metapackage to get all that comes with the full ubuntu-gnome-desktop:
Next, remove the ubuntu-desktop:
or, if you would like to remove the configuration files as well
Just BE CAREFUL to review the list of programs to uninstall before selecting "Y" to accept the changes to ensure sure you are not uninstalling something you want to keep or need!!!
If there are any applications you want or need to keep that are to be removed, do not except the changes and instead, press CRTL + C to exit the command and then explicitly install these applications using
sudo apt-get installto mark these wanted or needed applications as selected. After doing this, runsudo apt-get autoremoveagain and once more, review the list of applications to be removed to verify before accepting the changes to the system.