SUMMARY: Removing CDE from Solaris 2.

From: Nicky Ayoub (Nicky.Ayoub@Microchip.COM)
Date: Fri Jun 21 1996 - 12:48:43 CDT


Well, thanks again everyone. A few respondants wanted to know "why???" ;-)
Well I simply wanted the space back and openwin has been serving my needs.
I'll play with CDE when I can get more RAM or a sparc 5...

That said I would like to quote Vicky Lau <vlau@msmail2.hac.com>. Her
responce was most comprehensive. The first phase is to run the following
(off the CD if possible)

echo "y" | ./install-cde -uninstall

That leaves 3 more packages to remove, Here is Vicky's script for this:

  for i in SUNWdta SUNWmfman SUNWmfdm
  do
    PKG_TEST=`/usr/bin/pkginfo $i 2>/dev/null`

    if [ "${PKG_TEST}" != "" ]; then
      echo "y" | pkgrm $i
    fi
  done

There is also some more clean up to do in /usr/dt. She suggests copying
/usr/dt prior to installing CDE so that it it easier to back out of.

Most of the other responses were along these lines :

pkginfo | grep -i cde
pkgrm SUNWdt*

Thanks to all who took the time to repsond:

Roy Rapoport <rsr@ide.com>
popp@luey.redars.ca.boeing.COM (Jeff Popp)
DonWilliams <don.williams@research.natpower.co.uk>
scott@spy.org (Scott D. Yelich)
mal@getech.leeds.ac.uk
Frode Stromsvag <frode@read-well.no>
tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com (Tim Evans)
Justin Young <justiny@cluster.engr.subr.edu>
Leonard Sitongia <sitongia@zia.hao.ucar.edu>
"Lau, Victoria H" <vlau@msmail2.hac.com>
catey@wren.geg.mot.com (Don Catey)
sunmana@cowboys.anet-dfw.com (Sunmana at Cowboys)
"Edgar V.S. Der-Danieliantz" <edd@aic.net>

Nicky
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