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I'm not sure which package I installed that also installed Gnome GUI. I did deluge (not just deluge-console) by accident, so maybe that was it. Or it could be gcp maybe?

Either way, now that I boot up my server when attached to a monitor, it has a basic Gnome GUI that can't do anything (no apps except vim and byobu terminal).

In either case, I have Gnome now and I want to get rid of it. And possibly purge any other packages that were accidentally installed.

sudo apt list

Returns way too many results for me to filter through. Is there a way to at least get rid of Gnome easily?

And is there a way to list how much storage each package uses?

jkang
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    You can run zgrep 'install ' /var/log/dpkg.log* | sort | cut -f1,2,4 -d' ' and identify the packages installed recently related to GNOME. apt list returns available packages (installed and available for installation). You may consider using --installed option with the command, i.e., apt list --installed. – Kulfy Jun 28 '20 at 08:14
  • Thanks, it looks like it was deluge. I've removed deluge and installed only deluge-console. I've also done 'sudo apt autoremove' which should've uninstalled all of the X11 and GUI stuff right? – jkang Jun 28 '20 at 08:23
  • I'm not sure about that. If you still have some packages dependent on X11 or Wayland, they might still be there in your system. You can check using apt-cache policy xorg. Also, I'm not sure which GNOME GUI you installed, for example, ubuntu-gnome-desktop, gnome, etc. – Kulfy Jun 28 '20 at 08:27
  • @jkang You can check first part of my answer here. – N0rbert Jun 28 '20 at 09:26

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