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I have Cinnamon and many more. How can I remove them and leave just Ubuntu?

mrSuperEvening
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Genrally I would do (replace cinnamon with the other desktop enviroments, e.g. kde4):

sudo apt-get remove cinnamon

then:

sudo apt-get autoremove

Go to https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/apt-get.html and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto for more info.

Braiam
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Christopher
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First, check what is going to be removed

sudo dpkg -l | grep .cinnamon.

If you are ok with it, run this command

sudo apt autoremove --purge cinnamon*

Command explanation

# dpkg -l       lists all installed packages
# grep .cinnamon.   filters, so that only packages with keyword cinnamon within their names, listed
# purge         removes mentioned package
# autoremove    tries to remove dependency packages
Pran
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I uninstalled cinnamon and when I restarted I had a computer, home & trash icon on my desktop. what I did was I went into synaptic. Make sure that you hit the all button to show ALL of the residual and installed programs. Search for cinnamon in the search bar. the installed programs will be green. what you do is you right click and scroll to the bottom where it says complete removal. After checking all the green boxes hit the apply button. It may take some time but don't worry its working. After that is done you will go to the bottom left and hit the status button and then above that scroll down to residual and click it. you will then mark all of those for complete removal. hit apply. At this point you will have to restart your computer. all of the residual information of cinnamon will be completely off and you will have your original desktop back.

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