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Tomsonas

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Fully remove TDE

I've been using LXDE and KDE Plasma for a while and I didn't really get into TDE. How could I fully and properly remove it?

q4osteam

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Re: Fully remove TDE

$ sudo apt autoremove q4os-desktop-trinity tdebase-trinity libarts1-*

Tomsonas

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Re: Fully remove TDE

$ sudo apt autoremove q4os-desktop-trinity tdebase-trinity libarts1-*

It didn't remove all packages left by TDE so I ran

sudo apt remove --auto-remove *trinity*

q4osteam

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Re: Fully remove TDE

Didn't your system complain about removing some essential packages ? There are a few Trinity libraries required in Q4OS for some applications to work correctly.

Tomsonas

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Re: Fully remove TDE

Didn't your system complain about removing some essential packages ? There are a few Trinity libraries required in Q4OS for some applications to work correctly.

I did get that

q4osteam

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Re: Fully remove TDE

You should never remove essential packages, it could break the system.

q4osteam

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Re: Fully remove TDE

If you have removed some of them, run the following:
$ sudo apt install q4os-desktop q4os-desktop-plasma
to install Q4OS Plasma desktop, or
$ sudo apt install q4os-desktop q4os-desktop-trinity
for Trinity desktop installation.

Tomsonas

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Re: Fully remove TDE

If you have removed some of them, run the following:
$ sudo apt install q4os-desktop q4os-desktop-plasma
to install Q4OS Plasma desktop, or
$ sudo apt install q4os-desktop q4os-desktop-trinity
for Trinity desktop installation.

What would be a safer way to remove all packages, packages like Konqueror and Kate for Trinity too

Dai_trying

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Re: Fully remove TDE

I can't understand why you would want to remove everything that makes Q4OS what it is, basically you will be left with a Debian base and a few odd packages. Is there a practical reason for wanting to do this?

crosscourt

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Re: Fully remove TDE

Why not do a fresh install with Q4OS KDE which is essentially a Debian install anyway and then add LXDE and youre good to go. Safer and easier way to get closer to what you want.

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q4osteam

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Re: Fully remove TDE

What would be a safer way to remove all packages, packages like Konqueror and Kate for Trinity too

The really safe way would be to try to remove packages one by one, and permit removal with non essential dependencies only. The complete list of Trinity packages you could find this way:
$ cat /var/lib/apt/lists/q4os.org_qtderepo_dists_buster_main_binary-amd64_Packages | grep ^Package: | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u

If you are an experienced user and you know what you are doing, you can really remove all in batch including the essential, and get the essentials back thereafter:
$ sudo apt install q4os-desktop q4os-desktop-plasma
However it's not the clean way recommended.

Nonetheless we can recommend the mentioned above by crosscourt. Just install the Q4OS Plasma edition, as it carries the minimal set of required TDE packages. You can even completely remove the Trinity repository after installation, see "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/12_qtde.list" file.