starting over, or is there an easier way

psilo357 · 2008-11-07 01:35:41

Say I want to ditch kde4 and start anew, is it possible to just uninstall all of kde4? I like my firefox, thunderbird, ktorrent (though I guess i could switch to rtorrent to drop dependencies), mplayer, yaourt, and sabnzbd installs, all stuff i use regularly, however, the 100 other apps installed along with KDE are unneccessary to me, I was thinking of trying out openbox.

If anyone knows of an easy way to accomplish this without starting over from a blank drive, that woudl be great, however, if you guys/gals think it will cause problems and just be more of a headache than it is worth, then i can easily do a reinstall.

thanks

BinkyTheClown · 2008-11-07 01:39:33

Try `pacman -Rs kde4`

Ranguvar · 2008-11-07 01:56:20

'pacman -Qs kde' will find all packages with kde in the name or description. 'pacman -Qs qt' might be helpful, too, though Qt apps are not necessarily KDE apps.

Heller_Barde · 2008-11-07 09:33:33

no, no. pacman is capable of uninstalling whole groups! just do

pacman -Rs kde

it will remove all of the packages in the groups kde and the "s" option will also remove all the packages which were installed as dependency for any of the packages which you specified (in that case all packages in the group "kde")

cheers
Barde

Ashren · 2008-11-07 10:00:49

One of the beauties of Arch is that reinstallation is almost never needed. Just do as the above posters suggests.

Jack B · 2008-11-07 11:28:15

Some additional steps, depending on how clean you want to be:

As said above, pacman can remove things. -R means remove, and you can add more flags too,
-s will remove all deps not needed by enything else
-c will remove all packages depending on the one you are removing
-n will remove all config files too. It will not make .pacsave files
pacman -Rscn will do all of the above

You could also remove the per-user config files too if you want. They'll be stored in a folder in your home directory called something like .kde. Of course if you want to put it back at any point those config files might be useful.

HTH
Jack

thisperishedmin · 2008-11-07 13:34:21

you may want to consider KDE 3 base edition as well. It provides the kde DE without all the uneeded apps. since you would be keeping your other applications (Those you listed) this may work out nicely...

unless of course you were planning on jumping ship and trying something totally different

Heller_Barde · 2008-11-07 17:21:14

Jack B wrote:

-s will remove all deps not needed by enything else
-c will remove all packages depending on the one you are removing

psilo357: be careful with the -c option, especially with the -n option it might remove some programs you may still want (and then would remove even the configuration of them which could end badly..)

cheers Barde

psilo357 · 2008-11-12 02:36:03

well, with all the problems i had, i went ahead and did a reinstall anyways, and with arch its so fast, it is just as easy as cleaning it all up IMO. Installed kdemod4 and its nice, though not as different from kde4 that I thought it would be. Also am trying out lxde, and really digging it so far.

peace

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