<OT> i'm bored, anyone for irc?

Bob Raymond guarneri
Mon May 17 11:38:03 PDT 2004


On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 02:03, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:00:45 +0800 "m.w.chang" <mwchang at netvigator.com> wrote:
> 
> > write an sxs on "generic method to remove xfree86 
> 
> rm -r /etc/X11 
> rm -r /usr/X11R6
> rm /etc/XF86Config*
> 
> > and kde/gnome".
> 
> rm -r /opt/kde
> rm -r /opt/kde2
> rm -r /opt/kde3
> rm -r /root/.kde*
> 
> > the method must be proven and workable on all, any distribiton. :)
> > 
> 
> works for me...

Add this for Gentoo:

rm -rf /usr/kde/

and Debian:

rm -rf /usr/local/kde/

Gnome might be a bit more tricky in any distribution (unless they have
an /opt/gnome directory).  On Gentoo I do:

rm -rf /usr/share/gnome

but that doesn't take care of /usr/bin Gnome stuff.

For Gentoo'ers safe way is:

cd /usr/portage/gnome-base

emerge unmerge gnome*

cd /usr/portage/kde-base

emerge unmerge kde*

emerge unmerge qt xfree





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