Am Sonntag, 20. Februar 2011 schrieb Paul Cartwright: > On 02/20/2011 02:05 PM, Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > >> so, tell me the easy way to get RID of anything kde4 ? > > > > this is what I did - but it's not for the faint hearted: > > > > # apt-get purge $(dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'|grep '^plasma-') > > that one also wanted to get rid of k3b* k3b-i18n* kdebase-runtime* , but > that is FINE, because it left k3b-trinity. > > > # apt-get purge $(dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'|grep '^libnepomuk-') > > also that got rid of some virtuoso packages.. > > > # apt-get purge $(dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'|grep '^strigi-') > > nice! > > > # apt-get purge $(dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'|grep '^kde4-') > > # apt-get purge $(dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'|grep '^kde4-') > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > > > Now each of this lines gives you a bunch of packages, that will also be > > removed. Keep an eye on them, there might be some packages you'd like and > > need to reinstall later from trinity repository. > > > > But first check, that you get synaptic running:-) > > as normal user, it now works.. weird, and it asks for the user password, > NOT root.. as far as I can tell, it's because it uses sudo, not su, and sudo want's the users password :-) i'm courious, what's your display id now and why does it keep changing? constantly? nik