Need some help...

For some reason I am getting updates, and well for the most part, the entire KDE libs and dependencies. The funny thing is that I run Xubuntu + XFCE 4.8. I don't run any KDE sessions nor do I have any KDE based apps either.

Question: What may have caused this? How to fix?



Almost ALL the updates are for KDE.....hmmmm.

 

Looks like you've installed 'something' that brought in the KDE core packages, and now it's found updates.

 

Could you run these commands in a terminal?

Code:

dpkg -l | grep "^ii" | sed -e 's/ii  //g' -e 's/ .*$//g' | xargs echo > /tmp/package_list.txt
for i in `cat /tmp/package_list.txt`; do apt-cache show $i; done > /tmp/package_info.txt
apt-get -s dist-upgrade > /tmp/upgrade_simulation.txt

The first command will save a list of all the packages you have installed to /tmp/package_list.txt. The second command will print information about all the packages (dependencies, etc.) to /tmp/package_info.txt. The final command will simulate an upgrade without actually perferming in.

Can you attach the 3 files created by those commands? They are:

 

Yeah I assumed that, but I have no idea what it is. I wonder if I can
sudo apt-get autoremove ( any KDE dependent app/lib), or similar command?

 

Here are the .txt files.

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Found the problem!

When you installed LibreOffice, you installed the KDE integration package, therefore pulling in the needed dependencies. The package is libobasis3.3-kde-integration.

So the packages you need to remove are (you can deselect them in Synaptic):

 

The packages you listed are not installed. I did uninstall the librroffice KDE-integration. The other files are what synaptic wants me to add with update -- even after uninstalling the libreoffice kde-integration.

 

That's really strange, because they are listed as being installed when you ran "dpkg -l".

 

Yep you are right, for some reason I couldn't get them through terminal command, except kde-integration. Now they are showing up after restart. So I am going to autoremove them.

Thanks for your help!

 

I suggest that you use the "--purge" option when you autoremove, so no traces of the KDE packages are left, such as configuration files.

Code:

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge kdebase-runtime kdebase-runtime-data kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkdeui5 libkdewebkit5 kdoctools libkatepartinterfaces4 libkdnssd4 libkfile4 libkhtml5 libkio5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkmediaplayer4 libknewstuff3-4 libknotifyconfig4 libkntlm4 libkparts4 libkpty4 libkrosscore4 libkrossui4 libktexteditor4 libkutils4 libnepomuk4 libnepomukquery4a libplasma3 libsolid4 libthreadweaver4 oxygen-icon-theme plasma-scriptengine-javascript

Of course, make sure you check what is actually removed. If that doesn't work, try:

Code:

sudo dpkg --purge kdebase-runtime kdebase-runtime-data kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkdeui5 libkdewebkit5 kdoctools libkatepartinterfaces4 libkdnssd4 libkfile4 libkhtml5 libkio5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkmediaplayer4 libknewstuff3-4 libknotifyconfig4 libkntlm4 libkparts4 libkpty4 libkrosscore4 libkrossui4 libktexteditor4 libkutils4 libnepomuk4 libnepomukquery4a libplasma3 libsolid4 libthreadweaver4 oxygen-icon-theme plasma-scriptengine-javascript

 

Yep it is removed! Thanks again for the time and help!

 

You're welcome! I'm glad it worked!