Running KDE

[Derek Broughton]

Daniel Carrera wrote:

> I'm not familiar with aptitude. I just took a look at the man page, and
> it looks similar to apt-get. So, could one just type this?:
> 
> sudo aptitude remove kubuntu-desktop
> 
> I assume that it deletes all the contents of the meta-package but
> nothing else, right? 

No.  It depends how you installed it.  If you used apt-get to install it,
aptitude doesn't know what was automatically installed.

> What if I installed (say) Konqueror separately 
> before trying Kubuntu and I don't want to remove Konqueror? Do I have to
> install Konqueror again later?

No.  It's like removing hard-links in the file system - Konqueror is
manually installed, so it won't be removed in any case, but installing it
caused the installation of a large part of KDE, and that won't get removed
when you remove kubuntu-desktop either.  If you decide to remove _both_
konqueror and kubuntu-desktop, then all of the common dependencies will be
removed - unless something else was manually installed that depended on
them.
-- 
derek