Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 17:32 +0100, AG wrote:
> H.S. wrote:
> > AG wrote:
> >
> > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > >
> > > > In <[🔎] 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
>
Personally, when making major changes like this, I find it easier to use
aptitude's ncurses interface than just using the command-line. When I
did a similar exercise for GNOME, first thing I did was mark
"gnome-desktop-environment" for removal, then went through the list of
packages that action would remove and manually marked those I wanted to
keep. It really doesn't take that long because once you mark a few key
components, most of what you want will be pulled in. The list of what
will be removed dwindles pretty quickly, and that makes it easier to
look at each one that will go and make sure you want it to go.
And, of course, if you make a mistake and get rid of something you
decide you want, you can always reinstall it.
--
Michael M.
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