Problems with KDE4 under Kubuntu Hardy

[Derek Broughton]

Pastor JW wrote:

> On Sunday 01 June 2008 05:18:19 pm Art Alexion wrote:
>> On Sunday 01 June 2008 10:57:04 Pastor JW wrote:
>> > Do you mean by "clean install", to install the whole of 8.04?   That
>> > would be almost impossible for me as I also have work to do on my
>> > computer all day.  I did "mark for complete removal" KDE4 and then
>> > reinstalled it, but that does not fix the K menu button.  It is still
>> > over on the right hand side instead of the left where it started.
>>
>> I don't know what tool you used for "complete removal"
> 
> The quoted line is the line displayed in the tool named "Synaptic Pakage
> Manager" which evidently does NOT do what it says it is going to do.

To be fair to synaptic, there's no such thing as "complete" removal. 
Nothing in your own home directories is ever removed by package management. 
Consider that package management is done by root: how could it ever be
right for root to decide what should be in /home/pastorjw/?
-- 
derek