[SOLVED] The other KDE

[metacognition]

I finished downloading and installing KDE 4.1 (Woo!), but now I still have all the KDE 3.x stuff now and I don't need them since I have the KDE4 versions. Should I, and How do I get rid of them?

Thanks again.

[aysiu]

Try pasting this into the terminal:

sudo apt-get remove amarok amarok-xine ark arts brltty cdrdao desktop-effects-kde digikam dmz-cursor-theme dolphin enscript foomatic-db-gutenprint gdebi-core gdebi-kde gtk-qt-engine gwenview hpijs-ppds ijsgutenprint k3b kaffeine kamera katapult kate kbstate kcontrol kcron kde-guidance kde-guidance-powermanager kde-icons-mono kde-style-qtcurve kde-systemsettings kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdebase-data kdebluetooth kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdenetwork-filesharing kdenetwork-kfile-plugins kdepasswd kdeprint kdm kdnssd keep kfind kghostview kicker kio-apt kio-locate kio-umountwrapper kipi-plugins klipper kmag kmailcvt kmenuedit kmilo kmix kmousetool kmplayer-base kmplayer-konq-plugins knetworkconf konq-plugins konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konversation kooka kopete kpdf kpf kppp krdc krfb kscreensaver ksmserver ksnapshot ksvg ksysguard ksysguardd ksystemlog ktorrent kubuntu-desktop kvkbd kwalletmanager kwin-style-crystal libakode2 libao2 libarts1-akode libbrlapi0.5 libflac++6 libgadu3 libgpod-common libgpod3-nogtk libifp4 libijs-0.35 libjpeg-progs libk3b2 libkbluetooth0 libkcddb1 libkdcraw3 libkexiv2-3 libkipi0 libkscan1 libmeanwhile1 libmtp7 libnjb5 libopenobex1 libpoppler-qt2 libpythonize0 libqt-perl libraw1394-8 librsync1 libruby1.8 libsamplerate0 libsearchclient0 libsgutils1 libsmokeqt1 libstrigihtmlgui0 libvisual-0.4-0 perl-suid poster psutils pykdeextensions python-dev python-kde3 python2.5-dev qca-tls rdesktop rdiff-backup ruby ruby1.8 strigi-applet vorbis-tools xcursor-themes && sudo apt-get install kubuntu-kde4-desktop

[metacognition]

Thanks, it works but now the menu has no more icons. They're all folders, is that normal?

[benerivo]

What does your main menu now show? Does it contain any programs at all - eg. konqueror, dolphin, gwenview, or konsole...
Make sure you have logged out and back in, after performing such a large uninstall of packages.

[aysiu]

Thanks, it works but now the menu has no more icons. They're all folders, is that normal?

Can you post a screenshot of your menu?

[metacognition]

I did a restart and it's all good now. Apparently after the uninstall, it was still riding on KDE 3.x

[aysiu]

By the way, the way I found the solution to this was...

I started the Kubuntu KDE 4 Remix live CD session. I typed in

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

and instead of actually going through with the installation, I just copied and pasted all the new packages that would be added to KDE 4 if I were to install KDE 3.*

Then I tacked on

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-kde4-desktop

just in case something got accidentally removed.