Removing the KDE "fluff"

CaptainCaveman · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 23

I noticed that after doing an emerge kde, there's an awful lot of fluff with it. (The "edutainment" stuff, the "Toys" (potato guy, etc), and so on.)

How do I remove these programs if I don't want them? For example, with Mandrake, I would use kpackage to remove the "Kdetoys" package and so on, but under Gentoo that won't work, of course...

Can I just delete the binary files, or will that leave remnants and such elsewhere on my hard drive from them (kind of like how you can't just delete the executable in Windows.)

What's the "proper" way to uninstall them?

Thanks.

tooly · Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2002 5:30 pm Post subject:

Hi Captain caveman,

the proper way is :

emerge unmerge kdetoys

If i want only remove one program in an package (esp. KAsteroids in kdegames) i do :

unpack /usr/portage/distfiles/kdegames-3.0.tar.bz2 to /usr/src
cd /usr/src/kdegames
./configure
cd kasteroids
make uninstall

Hope this will help.

mfg
Theo

dArkMaGE · Apprentice Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 152

i believe only qt, arts, kdebase, and kdelibs are actually required for a running kde system so everything else you should be able to get rid of if you dont use it

CaptainCaveman · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 23

Ok, unpacking worked. (actually I had to bunzip, then tar -xf, but it worked.)

However, and maybe I'm stupid, but I can't get "emerge unmerge [package]" to work.

I just figured out that I need to do emerge unmerge /var/db/pkg/[package].

Is this normal?

clacour · Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 7:30 am Post subject:

No, it's not normal.

I did a "emerge unmerge kdeedu" and it found the correct version and was ready to unmerge it.

FYI, you can untar a bzipped tar package in one swell foop:

tar -jxvf <package.tar.bz2>

The "-j" option works just like "-z" does for gzipped files.

Guest · Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 4:48 pm Post subject:

you might have to update portage to get emerge unmerge to work. It didnt woek for me for a while and then i updated portage and it worked

CaptainCaveman · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 23

Updating portage did it. 'emerge -s portage' revealed a newer version available.

I'd have never thought to try that.

Of course, now I get an "* IMPORTANT: 2 config files in /etc need updating." error, and the help isn't exactly clear on how I just fix these two files, rather than letting it overwrite everything -- unless that's the only way to do it.

Hrm.

Al'Capone · Guest

to update your etc files (that need updating)

emerge gentoolkit

then do
etc-update

and follow the instructions

very straight forward

CaptainCaveman · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 23

Heh, now that I've gone through the etc-update, I actually understand what that meant. (I had updated some config files on my own.)

Thanks.

Al'Capone

cd /usr/portage
cd kde-base
ls
you'll see all the packages that are under the KDE-Base ebuild
from there you can pick and choose what you want.

to get only the basic kde working minus the "fluff"

do:
emerge --pretend kde-base/kdebase

and you will be happily surprised

emerge kde-base/kdebase
will install ONLY the minimum requirements for KDE to work

hope that helped

cheers
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