Hey people,
I’ve just installed Plasma on my existing Gnome Spin of Fedora ( A lot nicer than I remember the last time I tried KDE ), I wanted to avoid installing everything from scratch but now I would like to remove the Gnome dependencies and defaults that might still be around.
I don’t really know how to to it other than deleting everything named gnome-something.
I would say that you could remove the group “Fedora Workstation”
after you installed the group “KDE Plasma Workspaces”
Did you try this?
It is harder to do it after the fact. Normally you would use dnf swap or dnf shell to remove the old group and install the new group at the same time.
If it was me I would probably use dnf shell, remove @gnome-desktop install @kde-desktop and then start the transaction. It should figure out what it actually needs to remove based on the current packages installed on your system.
Isn’t that dangerous if done that way? I would think there are a lot of packages in Fedora Workstation that are also needed for plasma.
Probably yes … so i would do it in a virtual environment first to check if it works.
sudo dnf group list
Available Environment Groups:
Fedora Custom Operating System
Minimal Install
Fedora Server Edition
Fedora Workstation
Fedora Cloud Server
KDE Plasma Workspaces
Xfce Desktop
LXDE Desktop
LXQt Desktop
Cinnamon Desktop
Sugar Desktop Environment
Deepin Desktop
Development and Creative Workstation
Web Server
Infrastructure Server
Basic Desktop
i3 desktop
Available Groups:
3D Printing
Administration Tools
Audio Production
Authoring and Publishing
C Development Tools and Libraries
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management Tools
Compiz
Container Management
D Development Tools and Libraries
Design Suite
Development Tools
Domain Membership
Fedora Eclipse
Editors
Educational Software
Electronic Lab
Engineering and Scientific
FreeIPA Server
Headless Management
Milkymist
Network Servers
Neuron Modelling Simulators
Office/Productivity
Pantheon Desktop
Python Classroom
Python Science
Robotics
RPM Development Tools
Security Lab
Text-based Internet
Window Managers
Deepin Desktop Environment
GNOME Desktop Environment
Graphical Internet
KDE (K Desktop Environment)
I solved it partially, I thought about removing the “Fedora Worktation” group but there were a few packages that I didn’t want to remove. In the end I just ran dnf remove \*gnome\* and checked what was going out. The only application in my case that I wanted to keep was Lutris, which was easilly reinstalled with no loss since the config files were all kept. With that I managed to remove the more disruptive gnome dependencies, like Nautilus that would pop up sometimes despite not beeing the default file browser.
Its important to note, if you want to remove gnome-shell itself you need to remove it from the list of protected packages in /etc/dnf/protected.d
In the end I wouldn’t say its safe for anyone to do it, I just so hapened to not be using any app that would be removed this way, it could be different in each setup, so I would recommend anyone trying to check carefully the list of removed packages before proceding.
Anyway, turns out KDE isn’t working very well with an HDD ( At least I suspect that’s the problem ) so I reinstalled gnome-shell while I figure that out. dnf group install “Fedora Workstation” did the job perfectly, I had to do very little to get my gnome environment to the way it was before I made the change.
Wow Dude ! I had no idea I could do this, it would have spared me so much trouble. It’s actually impressing I never came across it while researching how to install KDE.