accidental inclusion of kubuntu packages

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Mon Feb 28 04:36:10 UTC 2005


On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:24:52PM -0500, volvoguy wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:57:27 -0500, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop kubuntu-base
> > 
> > followed by
> > 
> > sudo apt-get clean
> > 
> > to get rid of the packages in the apt-get cache. Or,
> > 
> > sudo apt-get remove kubuntu* && sudo apt-get clean
> 
> Wouldn't this just remove the useless metapackages like the whole "is
> it safe to remove the ubuntu-desktop" issue? I'm looking to actually
> remove all the KDE related software that those two metapackages pulled
> in.

In this particular case, removing a few packages (e.g., kdelibs4) will
indirectly do most of what you want, since the entire KDE stack depends on
them.

-- 
 - mdz




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