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.