On Thursday 12 June 2014, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> >> "Timothy" == Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...> writes:
> 
> 
>    > Try:
>    > sudo dpkg -l | grep kde3
> 
>    > The older versions used a -kde3 suffix.
> 
> Thanks  I found out that I am using still 3.5.11.
> 
> How can I purge the complete installation in order to have clean install
> of 3.5.13?
> 
> I tried out 
> 
>  sudo apt-get purge kubuntu-desktop-kde3 kubuntu-default-setting-kde3
> but it does not purge the whole trinity 3.5.11.
> 
> What was the command I used to install 3.5.11, which had all sort of
> dependencies. I googled around and could not find any instructions
> anymore.
> 
Try something like:
$ KDE_PACKAGES=`dpkg -l|grep kde|grep  -E ^ii|cut -d' ' -f2-3`
$ echo $KDE_PACKAGES	# to check if packeges were found
$ dpkg -r $KDE_PACKAGES

good luck
Gerhard