How to remove window manager added by meta-installer?

plvera · posted: 2009-01-20 23:52

Hello:

I installed KDE-lite just to see what it was like. Seeing how I absolutely don't like, and also seems to have changed some setting so that Konqeror pops up when Atom calls up a browser, I'd like to remove it.

But how? It was installed with meta-installer. Can I try to remove it with synaptic? And if so, will I remove whatever changes KDE may have done?

thanks.

Pedro

eriefisher · posted: 2009-01-21 00:32

If you try and remove Konqueror it will remove a lot of kde stuff, probably at least most of want you want to do.

plvera · posted: 2009-01-21 00:45

Erie:

Thanks, removing Konqueror will help. I was hoping to completely remove KDE, sort of use a"meta-uninstaller" __{{emoticon}}__

I guess I'll have to be very careful about loading WM's with meta-installer, if I can't wipe them out later (maybe it applies to other programs too).

Pedro

anticapitalista · posted: 2009-01-21 14:55

Have a look in /usr/share/install-meta open the WindowManager-kde_lite.bm with a text editor and see which apps got installed.

Remove them via synaptic or apt-get eg,

apt-get remove --purge kdebase kdebase-kio-plugins kde-core kdelibs konqueror ksvg

Afterwards, yuu may need to do

apt-get autoremove

Do check what is being removed before accepting. Just in case.

plvera · posted: 2009-01-22 02:04

Anti:

This worked and KDE appears to be gone from my system and Konqueror is not called by Atom, iceweasel comes up as before.

thanks.

Pedro

P.S. These instructions (not just for KDE, but in general of how to undo meta-installer installs) might be useful to put in an Antix FAQ or Wiki for us newbies.