Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes: > On Mon 28 Nov 2016 at 21:44:00 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> When I freshly installed Debian on my present system, I chose Gnome as my >> Desktop manager, then I switched to Openbox. To free space, now I want to >> remove all those Gnome packages that I haven't used any more but am not sure >> what of them I may delete without perturbing the system. How can I know? >> More >> in general, is there a way to know what packages one is not using and so can >> be >> removed? > > apt-get purge gnome gnome-shell > apt-get autoremove > > And go from there with 'dpkg -l'.
Thanks. But, my question is: how can I be sure and safe that doing so will not perturbing my system? Rodolfo
