Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

[AG <computing.account@googlemail.com>]

H.S. wrote:

AG wrote:
  

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
    

In [🔎] 20090521183512.GB7739@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com"><[🔎] 20090521183512.GB7739@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote:
 
      

Yes, I removed them and now KDE is broken. I even tried to get just
konqueror back to use as a web browser, but that doesn't work without
the mysql-server :(
    
        

That's simply not true.  I've been running 4.2 since it was in
experimental and I don't have mysql-anything installed there. 
Konqueror works fine as does kmail.  Calendar and address book are not
installed because they both need akonadi-server.

  
      

Actually, I was quite surprised to find that mysql was installed and the
daemon started on every boot up with the recent KDE upgrade.  Trying to
remove mysql wants to remove the entire KDE collection, which is not
what I want either.  I am keeping the mysql because I am not skilled
enough to surgically remove mysql without hosing my system, so the
lesser of the two evils, I guess.

    

If you are not using the follow, you need to remove them to not need
mysql I suppose:
akonadi-server
kaddressbook
kaddressbook-plugins
karm
kdepim-kfile-plugins
kdepim-kio-plugins
kitchensync
korn
ksync
libkdepim1a

In addition, you may have installed a meta-package that pulls in a whole
bunch of packages automatically. Removing that meta package should not
be a problem in most circumstances. To be safe, you may use the "-s"
flag with aptitude to see what will happen with the removal without
actually making it happen.

Regards.



  

Thanks H.S.  Good advice and can dispense with those suggested components of KDE without any regret.

Couple of quickies:

(1) How would I track down the guilty metapackage? 
(2) I use apt-get generally and you're suggesting aptitude -s.  Are there any likely hiccups mixing package management systems?

Cheers
AG