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%%warning
Removing the UI is a rather permanent thing. Once you've done so, restoring your Pi back to being able to use the desktop again
very difficult, i.e., reversing the purge of UI libraries. So unless you're hurting for disk space on your SD card you might wish to just leave the UI files alone. One thing I ''have'' noticed is that if your WiFi gets messed up, it's easier to fix it using the UI than via raspi-config.
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sudo apt remove --purge x11-common
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get remove --purge x11-common
sudo apt-get autoremove
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This removes all x11 packages, then the 'autoremove' does the cleanup of packages that are no longer needed. Then updates what's left of your operating system.
This removes all x11 packages, then the 'autoremove' does the cleanup of packages that are no longer needed.
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This will empty up some disk space and speed up operating system updates as there's less on your Pi. As a measure of this,
here's the stats on a clean new 64 bit Raspberry Pi OS, before and after removing the UI:
This will create a lot more empty disk space and speed up updates as there's less on your Pi.
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__Before:__
{{{
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.0G 3.8G 2.9G 58% /
/dev/mmcblk0p1 253M 31M 222M 13% /boot
}}}
__After:__
{{{
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.0G 3.3G 3.5G 49% /
/dev/mmcblk0p1 253M 31M 222M 13% /boot
}}}
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So this cleared about half a gigabyte of space.