update manager & KDE

[harmankardon35]

i installed ubuntu, and just for a while i had kubuntu-desktop installed. I realized i prefered gnome, so i went ahead and un-installed kubuntu GUI in synaptic . Well my regular updates continually try and download KDE related updates, which i do not need or want. How to i tell update manager that kde is no longer installed? I am using ubuntu 9.10

[reed9]

You still have components of KDE installed. Did you just uninstall the kubuntu-desktop package? This is a virtual package that points at the rest of KDE. Uninstalling it doesn't remove everything.

If you do

sudo apt-get autoremove

it should mark all the kde packages as unneeded and remove them. Be very careful with this option, it's easy to accidentally uninstall a lot of things you want also. Read though the list of packages to be removed carefully.

Alternately, and safer, search for installed kde packages in synaptic to remove.

You can get most of kde by removing the base package.

sudo apt-get remove kdebase

EDIT: Scratch the last. I think kdebase is actually another metapackage, and may not be installed anyone with kubuntu-desktop.

[D-cat]

I believe kdebase (and kdebase-runtime*) contain the core libraries needed to run QT programs. If you have no such programs, kdebase* is what to remove. That should take anything that depends on it along with as well. Check the remove list to make sure you don't remove something you want to keep.