Katipo wrote:
Hello, I am in the process of stripping my system down.....again. I want at this stage, to get rid of KDE completely. The last couple of times I ran into a couple of road blocks:The first time, and I'm afraid I can't even remember the name of the application now, I couldn't remove absolutely everything. There was a dependency issue somewhere. Would anybody be able to jog my memory regarding that?The second time was weird, I stripped out application by application, until there was just kthesaurus and koffice-space left, 'dpkg --purge'd those , successfully according to dpkg, and then found them alive and well on my system. Couldn't believe it, typed a word into kthesaurus, and got a whole list of synonyms back.Trying again after a fresh install. Does anybody have any good advice as to a successful technique for this, e.g., is there a recommended remove sequence? Or can anyone point me to a reference?Thanks, David.
Do your installs differently....? Sounds like you use TaskSel to pick up your X-Windows "stuff".If you do a truely fresh install and at the point where you are asked to launch tasksel/dselect/aptitude to select additional packages you could do one of two things:
select none and have an absolute minimalist system. Not recommended unless you are planning on doing something interesting, like impliment LVM or upgrade from a very old install CD to -testing.
select dselect, and then as soon as it's menu of items to select pops up, go to install. Don't select anything. This will select a whole series of packages to install anyways as base packages. This will give you a minimalist, mostly functional, system with no XFree86.
After this, pick only the ones you want and watch for dependencies. It's very easy to select KDE/Gnome centric applications these days.
As for removing files, start by getting rid of kde-core and that might remove most of the kde stuff on your PC. I don't know about all. I usually follow the method for fresh installs.