How to uninstall lightdm?

Question

I removed Unity from my computer. But still lightdm is showing when I typed sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm. I want to remove it. What can I do?

Solution 1

To remove an application in Ubuntu you can type in a terminal:

sudo apt-get remove lightdm

or remove it with all its configuration files:

sudo apt-get purge lightdm

Solution 2

If you do a

sudo apt-get remove lightdm

instead leaving out the purge, if anything does go wrong and you cannot log into a graphical session you can always drop to a terminal and restore LightDM.

After the remove if everything works properly you can then purge the config files ..

If you will do -

sudo apt-get purge lightdm

or

sudo aptitude purge lightdm

then you cant restore it back without installing.

Solution 3

What about

sudo apt-get remove lightdm

I think that should work, isn't it?

Solution 4

Do

sudo apt-get remove lightdm

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Comments

[titusfx]

And if something goes wrong? How do you restore it?