In article <_VJGayJ9kO3UUTIfUzWL8N-H3YVyrTVsR43tgbjTQwKQ6L266wy9r_J15Fgl0tKahK83lptzUTv1upSSixzTVL5lXDypG6ipc2uva-pzFVY=@drippingwithirony.com>, dep <trinity-users@...> wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- >-=-=-=-=-=- > >a week or so ago i upgraded to ubuntu 18.04 from 16.04. i do not think the protonmail bridge >problems have anything to do with this, but in any event it brought a lot of plasma, etc., >stuff that i do not want. i see that i have an application -- looks like kcontrol, >superficially -- to configure sddm. i am using tdm. > >is there a decent recipe for the removal of kde/plasma stuff? i suppose it's worthwhile to >keep gnome (or something) around in case for some reason i can't get into tde, and of course >there are gnome/gtk apps i use under tde. but it seems as if the upgrade brought me a load >of stuff that i don't want, and i'm not sure that it plays nicely. i can do a search on >"trinity" of course, to find tde packages, but i don't know of any search term that limits >the results to non-trinity kde applications and libraries. You may be able to use something along the following lines: $ aptitude search '?narrow(~i~n(kde|qt|plasma),!~V4:14.0.5-0)' "From all the available versions of all packages, narrow the selection down to installed ones (the ~i term) with names containing kde or qt or plasma (the ~nregex term), and from those filter those whose version does not match the current Trinity release version." The results marked with A in the second column were automatically installed so focus on any that don't have this marker. "aptitude why <package>" may help here. Hope this helps, aptitude search terms can be tricky but are also pretty powerful. Nick -- "The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life" -- Janet Street-Porter, BBC2, 19th March 1996