• Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    I was trying to delete a KDE program that I’ll never use, but Discover seemed to want to remove the whole pile of KDE Apps. I’m sure there’s a way.

    • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      24 hours ago

      Discover got the Pop OS vibe. You want to remove a small app?how about to remove the entire desktop emviroment and system components? Y/N

    • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
      3·
      24 hours ago

      It may be that it wants to uninstall some kde-plasma-desktop metapackage, not the whole bunch of all kde apps. If it is uninstalled, nothing crucially important happens. Try to remove it with apt if you’re running some Debian or Ubuntu flavour.

      • fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        23 hours ago

        The problem is that the all those apps installed as dependencies will get marked as unused and removed with the next --autoremove (which you should probably do regularly to clean up old kernels.

        The real fix would be to mark all those apps as explicitly installed, but I don’t use apt-based distros regularly so idk how.

        • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
          3·
          23 hours ago

          You can then either ‘install’ them with apt, which does essentially only mark installed packags as manually installed or use e.g. synaptic for that.

            • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
              1·
              14 hours ago

              Not every package, but some of them. The remaining are dependencies. Essentially, one can (iteratively) copy paste the output list of apt autoremove into apt install until apt autoremove doesn’t want to uninstall packages one intends to keep.