Clean up

[Carlosinfl]

After installing Debian (sarge) I notice there is a bunch of crap I don't want or will use. Is there a way I can remove/delete these programs and keep my system as lite as possible?

For example things I would like removed:

- Games
- GNOME (I prefer KDE)
- Kmail
- Knode
- Mozilla Web Browser
- Epiphany Web Browser
- Konquerer Web Browser
- Mozilla Komposer
- Kopete (IM Client)

Is there a way to just dump this stuff off my system? I was hoping it would let me select what I wanted in the Windows manager and not load up all this stuff.

[fx]

You could use synaptic to do that.

[Terje]

Or you can just use apt-get remove packetname

[Carlosinfl]

So if I wanted to remove GNOME and everything that was associated with Gnome, I can just use the command:

"apt-get remove gnome"

I just hate having all this junk on my system that I don't need.

[petteri]

So if I wanted to remove GNOME and everything that was associated with Gnome, I can just use the command:

"apt-get remove gnome"

I just hate having all this junk on my system that I don't need.

You can use wildcard characters such as * so for example I would try:
"apt-get remove gnome*"
But be carefull not to remove something really important

[Jeroen]

That'll also not remove all of gnome, as not everything is named gnome*. Best thing to do is use a program like debfoster to look over all packages and select which ones to keep. Removing a core gnome library would help too, as that'll force removal of anything using that library.