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22 questions linked to/from How to remove all traces of KDE installed
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How can I completely remove the KDE 5.6 Plasma desktop from Ubuntu 16.04 and restore Unity? [duplicate]
I have installed the Plasma 5.6 desktop over Unity to give a try, but I don't really like it and I want to completely remove Plasma 5.6 and restore Unity.
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How to remove kubuntu desktop environment and change to default unity desktop environment? [duplicate]
I am new to Ubuntu 14.04. I have installed KDE recently.I don't know how to uninstall/remove it.
It displays an error message and I want to switch back to default Unity Desktop Environment. How to ...
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How to go back from plasma to unity [duplicate]
I use Ubuntu 16.04.5. I had decided to try Plasma 5 desktop and did this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop
I've kept lightdm ...
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How to remove KDE stuff from software updater [duplicate]
Hi I had kde installed besides unity. I didn't like it so I've uninstalled kde.
But even after that I still get updates for some kde stuff (konqueror, kate, okular, akonadi and many many things...)
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Cannot revert back to Ubuntu 13.04 [duplicate]
I am new in linux world. I had ubuntu 13.04 installed. Some days ago I have installed "kde" in ubuntu 13.04 and after restart it became "kubuntu". I did not like it and tried to revert back to ubuntu ...
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How to completely remove kubuntu-desktop from Ubuntu
I installed kubuntu-desktop just to experiment with its interface.
Then I decided to remove and did the traditional apt-get purge and autoremove
but it seems elements of kubuntu are still there.
For ...
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How to completely remove desktop?
I wanted to switch to Xfce (I had KDE and GNOME installed), and I did this :
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get ...
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Ubuntu shows 'Kubuntu' on boot
I recently updated my Ubuntu 12.10 setup to 13.04 using sudo do-release-upgrade.
After going through the process and rebooting, I was a little confused by the GRUB menu showing a "Kubuntu" option ...
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KDE Won't Fully Remove
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 ...
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Uninstall kubuntu-desktop from ubuntu 18.04
I've installed kubuntu desktop on ubuntu 18.04 with tasksel. How can I uninstall it?
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How to return the login screen of the original unity ubuntu?
I've installed the LightDM GTK+ Greeter 1.7.0 as below
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lightdm-gtk-greeter-team/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lightdm-gtk-greeter
(http://www.smdavis.us/...
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How to Remove KDE Login Screen?
I accidentally installed KDE on my Ubuntu 12.04 Machine the other day, to find I really don't have a liking for it. I runned a apt-get command to remove the kde-full package, but programs like Konsole,...
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Is there a plain KDE version without all the KDE applications available for Ubuntu?
I really like KDE and Ubuntu but I don't need most of the KDE applications, like Kontact or Kopete that will be installed with the usual KDE.
Is there a way I can install KDE (4.7) without all those ...
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Remove KILE and other KDE dependencies
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I found my root directory full so thought to free up some space.
In this regard I opt for removing KILE. But the base package KILE is only 4.4 MB.
How can I remove its ...
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Unistalling Kubuntu
A while ago, I installed Kubuntu because I heard rumors that it ran faster than Ubuntu. Well, I found that to not be true on my machine. Since I got Kubuntu from the terminal, is there a way to ...
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