Issue removing kde

Hi, I'm a new Linux user, having never installed Linux or used it up until a few days ago. Seems pretty simple and I'm picking it up quickly, but I'm having trouble getting rid of the KDE GUI. I've removed it from the daemons portion of rc.conf and I've commented it in the xinitrc file so that when I boot I'm just at the prompt and after logging into root I type in pacman -Rsn kde (also tried -R & -Rs) and it tells me:
"error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: libkipi: requires kdelibs"
What exactly am I doing wrong here? Must I skip dependancy checks or do -c to remove the offending packages that rely on kde?
Thanks for any assistance

Might be some odd glitch in pacman but I haven't run across this type of thing since i've not used kde in arch for a long, long time. I installed and uninstalled kdemod not so long ago with no problems but that's a customized form of kde so probably not relevant.
Edit: you sure you didn't install digikam or gwenview before kde as far as I can see kipi is image plugins mostly for kde. Who knows?
Last edited by bgc1954 (2008-04-26 15:41:57)

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benny_kenobi wrote:
fettouhi wrote:1. When booting my machine grub2 gives an error saying "error: fd0 not found" (twice). My machine does not have a floppy drive and has never had one. There is no option in the BIOS to turn floppy off. So why is grub2 complaining about it?
Have you installed grub2 with that --no-floppy flag as described in:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub2#BIOS_systems?
fettouhi wrote:2. With KDE 4.7.0 thumbnails of pdf files are not generated anymore, they were with previous versions of KDE4. Anybody else have that issue with 4.7?
fettouhi wrote:Does anybody else have that problem with jpegs and folder previews?
Nope. Is it selected in dolphin>settings>general>previews.
fettouhi wrote:5. I'm using KDE's microblogging plasma app to check my twitter account but I can't get to remember my password.
Well that won't be a solution, but you might use choqok instead - at least it stores the password.
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gugah wrote:
Did you try removing the KDE temp files?
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It worked for some visual glitches I had. Hope it helps.
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[SOLVED] Pacman failed retrieving file 'core.db' after removing KDE

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Last edited by Greenstuff (2015-02-08 20:49:24)

Sorry, will do!
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I have KDE 4/5 installed at the moment, but I'd like to remove it totally and completely. I don't use a login manager - when I log into TTY1, X starts with KDE, and I go from there. On that note, when I do remove KDE, I know I'll have to modify some file to tell it to start the other DE I want to replace KDE with (Xfce). That's fine.
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why? you can stay with kde4 4.14.3, without kde5 libs:) https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1529823
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After using XFCE for a while, I decide that it will be my main DE, so I'd like to uninstall KDE desktop.
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Or maybe I have to remove the packages manually, like "pacman -R kdegames", or "pacman -R kdeedu" ?
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Check the dependencies of your required packages (you'd use pacman -Qi instead). That way you know exactly what to keep and what to chuck.
toad@deskarch 1014\22 ~ > pacman -Si kdevelop
Repository : extra
Name : kdevelop
Version : 4.2.3-3
URL : http://www.kdevelop.org/
Licences : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : kdebase-workspace kdevplatform kdesdk-okteta kdebase-kwrite
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 1888.53 KiB
Installed Size : 8864.00 KiB
Packager : Andrea Scarpino <[email protected]>
Architecture : x86_64
Build Date : Tue 03 Jan 2012 15:19:44 CET
MD5 Sum : 565690b8318f239b365100be4404f05e
SHA256 Sum : de372533352b8ff19aca904dfb22ca361837f9754b259f6c5ee7145197e4cf02
Signatures : Yes
Description : A C/C++ development environment for KDE

Suspend to RAM/HDD causes strange mouse issues in KDE

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5. SKIM works absolutely fine in non-KDE apps like Firefox:
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I'm curious how my locale got messed with in the first place if this is indeed the problem...
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declare -x SESSION_MANAGER="local/broadway:/tmp/.ICE-unix/19566"
declare -x SHELL="/bin/bash"
declare -x SHLVL="2"
declare -x SSH_AGENT_PID="19539"
declare -x SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/tmp/ssh-MtdHR19538/agent.19538"
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declare -x USER="rael"
declare -x WINDOWID="41943050"
declare -x XCURSOR_THEME="default"
declare -x XDM_MANAGED="/var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0,maysd,mayfn,sched,rsvd,method=classic"
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Last edited by LighthouseKeeper (2008-04-19 22:31:16)

Mapping issue - Remove Duplicates

Hello,
I want to remove the duplicate nodes. Below is the issue:
Input Structure:
MainNode   0..n
--SubNode 0..n
key
Val
Output Structure:
MainNode 0..n
--Subnode 0..n
key
Val
Now the example input:
<MainNode>
<subnode>
<key> 1001 </key>
<val< 1 </Val>
</Subnode>
<subnode>
<key> 1002 </key>
<val> 2 </val>
</subnode>
<subnode>
<key> 1001 </key>
<val> 1 </val>
</subnode>
Output should be:
<MainNode>
<Subnode>
<key> 1001 </key>
<val> 1 </val>
</subnode>
<subnode>
<key> 1002 </key>
<val> 2 </val>
</subnode>
i.e., it should remove the duplicate keys.
I tried as below, but doesnot work:
key --> removeContext --> Merge userdefinded function -->Subnode
Merge:
public void merge(String[] key, ResultList result, Container container) {
HashSet hs = new HashSet();
for(int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
    hs.add(a<i>);
Iterator it = hs.iterator();
while(it.hasNext()) {
    String val = it.next().toString();
    result.addValue(val);
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Any other solution?

Hi laxmi,
First try to sort those values by Key using Sort and collapse context so that when sorted all the similar elments group together then apply collapse context so that only the first repetition (1001) will be considered .Then use split by value (on change) and map .Try to think to do using predefined function SORT.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/c4cdfc334824478090739c04c4a249/content.htm
Thanks,
Ram.

[SOLVED] weird graphics issue on KDE

look what is this
what is going on here
everything else works fine (posting from chromium right now)
i figure it might be a driver issue
lspci gives VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
so i installed extra/xf86-video-intel 2.17.0-2 (xorg-drivers xorg) [installed] X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers
are there alternative open source drivers, or should i try setting up proprietary drivers somehow
or maybe this isnt even a driver issue?
edit: forgot to mention this is KDE full install with the latest stable xorg and kde packages
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There are no proprietary drivers for intel, there's just what you have installed. There's one problem though - 8xx cards aren't supported anymore. You're lucky you get any picture at all. But for proper functioning you'll have to either go without 3d acceleration, or possibly without any acceleration at all (except xv overlay for video playback).
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Section "Device"
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Section "Device"
Identifier "old intel stuff"
Driver "intel"
Option "ShadowFB" "on"
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Hello All.
After upgrading to KDE 4.9, I noticed:
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.xinitrc runs `exec startkde`, so I never get the chance there. Any
suggestions? Also, is anyone else having this problem? Is this worth a
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desktop grid" effect (most others seem fine). Did anyone else notice
this? Maybe I'm crazy, but I swear it was smoother in 4.8. If anyone can
confirm, did you find an answer? I tried to set the thumbnails to
"smooth" instead of "accurate", but it didn't seem to help. By the way,
this is on an X220 with intel graphics hardware (and the i915 kernel
module).
Has anyone successfully downgraded KDE from their cache before? I want to go
back to 4.8, but I'm scared of creating a much larger disaster.
Thanks in advance.
***Update***
Running my power-saving script fixes the first issue with kactivitymanagerd
(which is why it only happened on AC). I get the feeling this will be
something obscure, so it is probably best to not waste your time
investigating. But if you do run into this, I'm happy to share my script,
fwiw
Last edited by wes (2012-08-08 00:44:45)

Thanks for the replies, all : )
Teho wrote:I personally suffer from problem where closing almost any KDE
applications causes segfaults...
I tried out dolphin and konqueror just now, and had no issues. I don't use
them very often, but I've never seen them crash before.
@masteryod: Indeed. But before filing bug reports, I like to check with the
friendly Arch community to get a little feedback and make sure that, as you
mentioned, it isn't my own fault for having some messed up configuration.
This is a valid use of the forum, right?
PS Lead developer of kwin is suggesting porting desktop grid to
qml...
I'm not sure what to think of the QML re-write: that sounds like a
re-organization / feature addition, but I don't know if it acknowledges the
4.8 --> 4.9 performance regression that we've observed. I think will file a
report as soon as I get the chance.
Also, I have one update: I think the first problem I mentioned
(kactivitymanagerd refusing to die) might be somewhat me-specific, so don't
look too hard for a solution. The reason it only happens when I am on AC is
that in this case my power-saving script is *not* run. If I run the powersave
script, kactivitymanagerd will exit at the right time o_O No clue why the
script would fix this. There's nothing exotic in the script, and I still
contend this is a bug, but I'm not sure it would be worth your time to
investigate.
Thanks again, everyone.

How to go about removing KDE packages in Gnome?

Somehow I seem to have ended up with a few KDE applications installed in my Gnome installation, and I'm not sure where they came from. I've tried removing them using pacman, but I can never find the correct application name. Is there a way to get rid of all things KDE related in one swoop?
Thanks!

Awebb wrote:
How did they end up beeing on your system? Did you install them manually?
So you have THAT many packages on your system that a manual search is too time comsuming?
You can do a lot of filtering with pacman -Q. If those packages were installed manually, you can filter out all manually installed packages. Then you might want to search the package infos for the string "KDE".
-> man pacman
-> man grep
I didn't install them manually, they were probably installed from careless pacman management on my part. There aren't that many actually, I just overlooked the -Q flag. Thanks for your help!

Major Issues Removing CS4 and Air.

I was using CCleaner to clean up my registry the other day, and deleted some files. The following morning after starting up my computer, it freezes up and becomes unusable during normal start up. Running in Safe Mode it works fine, and is the only way I can use the computer currently.
The last thing I installed on my computer was CS4. When trying to run it, I would get a licensing error. So I tried to uninstall it using Add/Remove Programs. The uninstaller repeatedly kept failing. Eventually, I was able to uninstall CS4 using AdobeCreativeCloudCleanerTool. However, my computer still freezes during normal start up. I noticed Adobe Air is still installed, and tried to uninstall using Add/Remove Programs as well. It fails as well, saying I need to contact my administrator. I downloaded the Air Installer to my desktop and tried running as administrator, but it just tries to update, and fails saying I need to contact administrator. I have tried following the instructions here: How To Uninstall Adobe AIR (Windows) - PCMech, to uninstall using command prompts, but this give me an error message and wont work either. So far I have found no other solutions.
Now it could very well be that the Adobe programs are not what are causing my issues, but I would like to eliminate them as a possibility if I can. I also do not like the fact that they are so difficult to remove. I am rapidly reaching my wits end here. I have no idea what else to try. Please I could really use some help. Thank you in advance.

wow 23 views and not one response with any suggestions....

(SOLVED)Removing KDE completely??

I have run
pacman -Rd kde
then
pacman -Q | grep kde
I have a list of 15 items begining with kde
kdebase-lib, kde games, ked pimlibs etc
How do I get rid of all this completely. I am going to try KDEmod and it says on the site remove all.
Last edited by mcq (2010-02-03 19:21:12)

As a sidenote, you will have to deal with any config files in $HOME and other runtime generated files yourself.
Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2010-02-03 19:52:05)

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