On Friday 09 December 2011 01:15:13 Nicolas Bercher wrote:
> Frank Lienhard a écrit :
> > On 12/08/2011 04:05 PM, Lisi wrote:
> >> On Thursday 08 December 2011 14:29:07 Frank Lienhard wrote:
> >>> my main problem seems to be finding all the unnecessary kde stuff..
>
> Not a wonderful solution but try this:
>
>    $ aptitude search -F "%p" ~i | grep "\-trinity[ \t]*$" | sed
> "s;\-trinity;;"
>
> It should give the list of every installed trinity package on whose the
> suffix '-trinity' in their names are removed.
>
> Then, you should be able to remove every kde4 packages that matches
> trinity installed ones (e.g., konqueror removed if konqueror-trinity is
> installed):
>
>    # aptitude remove $(aptitude search -F "%p" ~i | grep "\-trinity[
> \t]*$" | sed "s;\-trinity;;")
>
> this is not perfect since it won't remove every kde4 packages, but it
> will remove conflicting apps.
>
> After this is done (you may have struggled a little with dependencies),
> you could try:
>
>    # aptitude remove ~g
>
> to remove every packaged that are not required by any manually installed
> package.  Now, you shouldn't have a lot of remaining kde4 packages.
>
> Nicolas
 
A couple of cli tools, 'apt-get autoremove' and 'deborphan', once you start 
removing packages any left behind dependencies can be removed by these commands.


-- 
Peace,

Greg