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