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fionn

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From: Campbell, CA

Registered: 2013-06-03

Posts: 49

[Solved] KDE/Plasma5 upgrade leaves KDE4 cruft behind

Howdy all;

Finally upgraded to the new Plasma 5 from  KDE4.  I followed the Wiki, which I understood to remove the old files and update the new.

What I find is that I have two (or more) versions of similar files in /usr/bin/.  For instance:  I have "kdinit4" and "kdinit5", "kstart" and "kstart5", "kde-open" alongside "kde-open5", and even "dolphin4" and plain "dolphin".  And that's just what I can still see in the other window... and there's more duplicates I didn't mention.

Rather than deal with the remaining cruft, how do I identify what can safely be removed?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by fionn (2016-03-09 12:51:13)

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,312

Re: [Solved] KDE/Plasma5 upgrade leaves KDE4 cruft behind

Those are needed for KDE4 applications regardless of which DE you are using.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: [Solved] KDE/Plasma5 upgrade leaves KDE4 cruft behind

Depends on the applications you are using, not all of the KDE "staples" have been ported yet and therefore rely on KDE 4 libraries to be present, off the top of my head Okular, Calligra, Amarok and many more

On Arch the quickest way is to check which packages still have their original category name prefixed to the package name, all of these are still based on KDE4 e.g. kdegraphics-okular, kdesdk-cervisia

Which also leads to dolphin4, KDE has been developed in such a way that many common uses don't have to be reimplemented by every application therefore the dolphin4 binary exists to provide the KDE4 applications that offer a filebrowser based upon dolphin the ability to still display said filebrowser same with katepart4 or konsolepart4 which are used so that standalone applications can make use of a full featured texteditor/terminal application without having to reimplement the complex parts themselves

Last edited by V1del (2016-03-09 09:00:28)

fionn

Member

From: Campbell, CA

Registered: 2013-06-03

Posts: 49

Re: [Solved] KDE/Plasma5 upgrade leaves KDE4 cruft behind

Thanks; that makes a lot of sense.  I'll mark this as solved.