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I wanted a window manager, so I installed xfce4. I used

sudo apt-get install xfce4

to do this. To remove it, I used

sudo apt-get remove --purge xfce4

which didn't work, and neither did

sudo dpkg purge xfce4

as evidenced 1) startx launches the xfce desktop, and 2) apt-cache search xfce4 returns a long list of installed packages.

So, how can I get rid of xfce4 and it's dependencies?

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answered 3 Years ago rontablis · Accepted Answer

xfce4 itself is a meta-package that will install a default configured xfce desktop environment.

In most cases the base files that comes with xfce4 are: xfconf, xfce4-utils, xfwm4, xfce4-session, thunar, xfdesktop4, exo-utils

So you can do

sudo apt-get purge xfconf xfce4-utils xfwm4 xfce4-session thunar xfdesktop4 exo-utils xfce4-panel xfce4-terminal

Then most of the package that were associated with these package become autoremovable so you can run

sudo apt-get autoremove

or, almost all xfce4 package depend upon libxfce4util-common. Just purge that one and you remove everything related to xfce