Hi, | > tries to remove the entire KDE, too. | | Are you really absolutely positive that's what's going to happen? | What does the list of packages that will be removed look like?
Yes, I'm positive. I'm attaching the command lines below. | If I try to remove KDE, I get: | | The following packages will be REMOVED | kde | | "kde" is just a metapackage, and removing this is of little | consequence. You are correct. The command # apt-get remove kde removes the "kde" package only. The problem is the next step. Please recall that my goal is to remove all the subcomponents under "kde-amusements". So, after removing the "kde" package as above, I naïvely typed # aptitude remove kde-amusements which did try to remove all the KDE packages (see below). Note that I used aptitude, not apt-get. In contrast, # apt-get remove kde-amusements removes the "kde-amusements" metapackage only, but that's not what I want to achieve. Cheers, Ryo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Command lines. ">>>>>" is the command prompt.] >>>>> apt-get remove kde Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: kde 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 41.0kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 157336 files and directories currently installed.) Removing kde ... >>>>> aptitude remove kde-amusements Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: akregator amor arts artsbuilder atlantik atlantikdesigner avahi-daemon blinken cervisia dcoprss dirmngr dosfstools edict eyesapplet festival festlex-cmu festlex-poslex festvox-kallpc16k fifteenapplet gnupg-agent gnupg2 gpgsm juk kaboodle kaddressbook-plugins kalarm kalzium kalzium-data kanagram kandy kanjidic kasteroids kate-plugins katomic kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbattleship kblackbox kbounce kbruch kbstate kdat kde-amusements kde-core kde-icons-mono kdeaccessibility kdeaddons kdeaddons-kfile-plugins kdeadmin kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork kdeartwork-emoticons kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-style kdeartwork-theme-icon kdeartwork-theme-window kdeedu kdeedu-data kdegames kdegames-card-data kdegraphics kdelibs kdelirc kdemultimedia kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdenetwork kdenetwork-filesharing kdenetwork-kfile-plugins kdepim kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-kresources kdepim-wizards kdessh kdetoys kdeutils kdewebdev kdnssd kdvi keduca kenolaba kfax kfaxview kfilereplace kfloppy kfouleggs kgamma kget kgoldrunner kgpg khangman kicker-applets kig kimagemapeditor kitchensync kiten kjumpingcube klaptopdaemon klatin kleopatra klettres klettres-data klickety klines klinkstatus kmag kmahjongg kmailcvt kmid kmilo kmines kmix kmoon kmousetool kmouth kmplot kmrml knetwalk knetworkconf knewsticker-scripts kodo kolf kolourpaint kommander kompare konq-plugins konquest konsolekalendar kontact kopete korganizer kpat kpercentage kpf kpilot kpoker kpovmodeler kppp krdc krec kreversi krfb ksame ksayit kscd kshisen ksig ksim ksirtet ksmiletris ksnake ksokoban kspaceduel kstars kstars-data ksvg ksync ktalkd kteatime ktnef ktouch ktron kttsd ktuberling kturtle ktux kuickshow kverbos kviewshell kvoctrain kwalletmanager kweather kwifimanager kwin4 kwordquiz kworldclock kxsldbg libarts1-audiofile libarts1-mpeglib libarts1-xine libavahi-core4 libboost-python1.33.1 libconvert-binhex-perl libcvsservice0 libdaemon0 libdb4.3++c2 libestools1.2 libfinance-quote-perl libgadu3 libgstreamer0.8-0 libhtml-tableextract-perl libindex0 libio-stringy-perl libkdeedu3 libkdegames1 libkgantt0 libkiten1 libkpimexchange1 libksba8 liblockdev1 libmal1 libmeanwhile1 libmime-perl libnews-nntpclient-perl libnss-mdns libpisock8 libpth2 libsnmp-base libsnmp9 libtidy-0.99-0 libtiff-tools libtunepimp-bin libtunepimp3 lilo-config lisa lskat mpeglib networkstatus noatun noatun-plugins php-doc phpdoc pinentry-curses pinentry-qt ppp python2.3 python2.3-iconvcodec qca-tls quanta quanta-data superkaramba tidy ttf-dustin ttf-sjfonts ytalk 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 235 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 397MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. >>>>>
