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KDE Won't Fully Remove

rated 0 times [ 8] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 7926 / 2 Years ago, wed, august 24, 2022, 8:53:33

This is NOT a duplicate. The solution in How to remove all traces of KDE installed did NOT work, so please do not mark this as a duplicate (it ruined the last post I made). I am using Unity, but KDE is still available on the login screen. I have uninstalled it, and all of its programs, but it won't go away.

I did an installation of kde-full to try it, but I didn't like it and want to go back to just Unity.

Thanks in advance.

PS this installation is NOT Kubuntu.

UPDATE: KDE Plasma is still an option on the login screen, and choosing it opens a perfectly working KDE session. I have a 128GB SSD, so space is valuable.

UPDATE: KDevelop isn't that important. I don't have any custom configs, so if it gets deleted, I can reinstall it quickly.

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answered 2 Years ago avilyexplor · Accepted Answer

When I want to get rid of everything based on the KDE libraries (and, consequently, entirely remove KDE), I simply:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libkde*

(Before running the above command including the --purge option, make sure that you make a backup of the KDevelop config files.) If you want to keep KDevelop, as per your comment, then you can subsequently reinstall it.

sudo apt-get install kdevelop

There may be KDE-related bits on the system (I'm not sure about this), but you definitely won't have any extraneous apps based on the KDE libraries (other than KDevelop and its deps).