>> "Gerhard" == Gerhard Zintel <gerhard.zintel@...> writes: > On Thursday 12 June 2014, Uwe Brauer wrote: >> >> "Timothy" == Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...> writes: >> > 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 Thanks but that gave an error with various packages. I think I will re install everything from scratch.