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Remove GUI from Raspbian

Posted by Sylvester Rac on

If your Raspbian image came pre-installled with X.org and GUI components you may want to remove them to free up some space on your partition. It's quite easy to do and highlights some useful commands:

Test the process with --dry-run (no changes are actually made to the system):

apt-get remove --dry-run --purge libx11-.*

List desktop related packages:

dpkg -l | grep -i lxde

Remove all X.org related packages and their config files:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libx11-.*

Remove no longer needed dependencies:

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

Clean the apt cache:

sudo apt-get autoclean

After doing the above I recovered about 2.3 gigabytes of disk space.

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