Re: Reinstall KDE completely

["M." <infinity.probability@gmail.com>]

Thanks folks.

The problem is that there is a lot of new config files on .local and .config with kf5 on it, and kde-full only removes what was installed with the metapackage. There are tons of kde5 packages laying around that removing kde-full will not remove. Any ideas?

Thanks again.

2015-09-17 12:19 GMT-03:00 Mirosław Zalewski <miniopl@poczta.onet.pl>:

Dnia 2015-09-17, o godz. 10:18:21
Carlos Kosloff <ckosloff@hardwarealien.com> napisał(a):

> Contrary to remove, purge command will also remove config files.

Not in home directory. Package managers do not touch files in home
directory, ever.

@"M.":
KDE applications used to keep files in dedicated directory (~/.kde on
Debian, ~/.kde4 on some other distros), but now they are XDG-compliant
and keep their stuff in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, which defaults to ~/.config .
The problem is, there is no subdirectory for KDE-related stuff. You
have to manually select directories which you think you won't need
anymore and remove them.

You might also want to check out ~/.local and ~/.cache (this one can be
safely removed - it's cache after all).
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Best regards
Mirosław Zalewski