Thanks to all for your help. Perhaps the way I presented this problem should have been better. I am not so interested in getting help for the commercial product here. That is for the company that I purchased the software from. What I really want help on here: If I decide to autoremove the packages that arose from installing gnome ("arts-trinity imlib-base imlib11 kig-trinity kuickshow-trinity libarts1-audiofile-trinity libarts1-mpeglib-trinity libtqt3-integration-trinity mpeglib-trinity synaptic-trinity tde-core-trinity tdebase-trinity tdeedu-trinity tdegraphics-trinity tdemultimedia-trinity xcalib"). If I remove these packages that are "no longer used", will it break my tde installation. I am pretty sure if I reinstall "desktop-base-trinity" and "tde-trinity", I will no longer be able to run the gnome desktop. I would like to keep them both active as an option. Forget about the 3rd-party commercial software. Let's just concentrate on having tde and gnome both as optional desktops from tdm. 1. Should I be able to do this with clean install ? 2. If so, is it safe to remove the excess trinity packages ? 3. If not, and I bring back tde to the full install state, is there a better way to install gnome without any issues ? ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx