On Thursday 12 June 2014, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> >> "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.
> 
When did the error occur? After the first, second or third command? What is the contents of the Variable $KDE_PACKAGES, written out on the second line? Are the kde programs correctly detected?

Isn't there a more detailed error message e.g. about dependencies thus you can not delete some packages? Can you remove the packages from $KDE_PACKAGES one by one on commandline? You might have to investigate a bit by yourself.

Gerhard