On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, David Hare wrote:

> On 02/11/11 19:13, Felmon Davis wrote:
>> hello,
>> 
>> I have some menu items that refer to kde4, some duplicate some kde3
>> stuff. this is probably due to a slightly botched install but I have
>> lived with it for most of the yr but would like to fix things up.
>> 
>> is there a magic incantation that will wipe the kde4 things?
>> 
>> F.
>> 
>
> dpkg -l | grep kde | grep 4:4 | grep -v trinity | grep ii | awk '{print $2}' 
>> mostkde4apps.txt
>
> should list of most of them to a text file. Review it carefully before you 
> start to purge!
>
> There will be lots of cruft left over, be careful with apt-get autoremove and 
> deborphan, they don't always get it right.
>
> No guarantees I got that right either.

alright, pretty clear; I'll give it a try on the relevant machines. 
thank you!

F.

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Felmon Davis

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