Also sprach Richard Lyons (Mon 11 Aug 02003 at 11:28:17PM +0200): > On Monday 11 August 2003 4:08 pm, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > > > Try this: > > > > > > > > <http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=gxXP.6fz > > > >.7%4 0gated-at.bofh.it> > > > > > > We-ell. That looks horrible. 31 or 32 packages to remove by name > [...] > > > All I know is that I looked high and low for a way to completely remove > > everything kde, and could not find it. I came up with this brute force > > method, and it worked for me. > > > > Bottomline, as good as apt/dpkg is, remove is *not* the same as purge, > > and -- even then -- some things remain, and interfere with the > > reinstall. > > > > I strongly urge you to remove everything kde, and start over -- clean. > > For those incomplete dpkg -l entries, you can do a creative apt-cache > > search, and figure it out . . . > > > > Obviously, this is a very last resort . . . > > Well, I eventually did it. I NOW HAVE KDE BACK! Thanks. The 30-odd packages > turned out to be only 25-ish. But the second stage, the removal of all the > remaining bits of KDE, was alarming. Your step 5, > > find / | grep -i kd | less > find / | grep -i qt | less > found thousands of files. Then I realised that they were all in about twenty > directories, so I deleted or renamed the directories. After that it ran > smoothly, only one error of configuration caused by my having deleted one > file too many. > > Kooka and other applications have duplicate entries in all menus and toolbars, > though. Is this a recognisable symptom of something. Perhaps I did mis a > file that has had its contents appended??? > > Other than that, I am thrilled. This is the first time I have managed to > access devices on the USB from Linux - a real bonus. I am glad that this helped, although I am sorry that we had to go to these lengths . . . KDE is a very complex framework, and with such a great variety of kde-integrated applications, all of which come with their own complexity, it is amazing to me how well dpkg/apt _does_ work! It would be nice to log a bug against those packages left behind by remove/purge; and, also, it would be nice to log a bug against the kde related installation processes that do not dwell well with previous configuration files -- where would anybody begin? If anybody finds a simpler way that is more effective, please, publish it to the list . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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