KDE Settings app

**Hewjr100** · 3 Weeks Ago

Does anyone know why I have a KDE Settings app in my default Ubuntu 24.04 with Gnome. I do not install any other desktops on my system, and I cannot delete it. Not through the software app anyway.

I forgot to say that I use the following command to remove snaps, then install Gnome Software and Flatpak:
"sudo bash -c "$(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/polkaulfield/ubuntu-debullshit/main/ubuntu-debullshit.sh)"

I have used this in the past and did not have a KDE Settings app on my system.

**&KyT$0P#** · 3 Weeks Ago

What is the output of

Code:

apt-cache policy systemsettings

If it shows this package is installed, check /var/log/apt/history.log to see when it got installed, and if it's not obvious from the log entry, you can run

Code:

apt-cache --installed rdepends systemsettings

to see what might have pulled it in. And you can see what would happen if you were to remove it by running

Code:

apt -s purge systemsettings

**Hewjr100** · 3 Weeks Ago

This is the first output:

sudo apt-cache policy systemsettingssystemsettings:
Installed: 4:5.27.11-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 4:5.27.11-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 4:5.27.11-0ubuntu2 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

sudo apt -s purge systemsettingsReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
kactivities-bin kactivitymanagerd kded5 kio kpackagelauncherqml
kpackagetool5 kwayland-data kwayland-integration libdbusmenu-qt5-2
libdouble-conversion3 libgpgmepp6t64 libhfstospell11 libkf5activities5
libkf5archive-data libkf5archive5 libkf5attica5 libkf5auth-data libkf5auth5
libkf5authcore5 libkf5codecs-data libkf5codecs5 libkf5completion-data
libkf5completion5 libkf5config-bin libkf5config-data libkf5configcore5
libkf5configgui5 libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5configwidgets5
libkf5coreaddons-data libkf5coreaddons5 libkf5crash5 libkf5dbusaddons-bin
libkf5dbusaddons-data libkf5dbusaddons5 libkf5declarative-data
libkf5declarative5 libkf5doctools5 libkf5globalaccel-bin
libkf5globalaccel-data libkf5globalaccel5 libkf5globalaccelprivate5
libkf5guiaddons-bin libkf5guiaddons-data libkf5guiaddons5 libkf5i18n-data
libkf5i18n5 libkf5iconthemes-bin libkf5iconthemes-data libkf5iconthemes5
libkf5itemmodels5 libkf5itemviews-data libkf5itemviews5
libkf5jobwidgets-data libkf5jobwidgets5 libkf5kcmutils-data libkf5kcmutils5
libkf5kcmutilscore5 libkf5kiocore5 libkf5kiogui5 libkf5kiontlm5
libkf5kiowidgets5 libkf5kirigami2-5 libkf5newstuffcore5
libkf5notifications-data libkf5notifications5 libkf5package-data
libkf5package5 libkf5plasma5 libkf5quickaddons5 libkf5runner5
libkf5service-bin libkf5service-data libkf5service5 libkf5solid5
libkf5solid5-data libkf5sonnet5-data libkf5sonnetcore5 libkf5sonnetui5
libkf5syndication5abi1 libkf5textwidgets-data libkf5textwidgets5
libkf5threadweaver5 libkf5wallet-bin libkf5wallet-data libkf5wallet5
libkf5waylandclient5 libkf5widgetsaddons-data libkf5widgetsaddons5
libkf5windowsystem-data libkf5windowsystem5 libkf5xmlgui-bin
libkf5xmlgui-data libkf5xmlgui5 libkwalletbackend5-5 libkworkspace5-5
libmd4c0 libpcre2-16-0 libpolkit-qt5-1-1 libqca-qt5-2 libqca-qt5-2-plugins
libqt5core5t64 libqt5dbus5t64 libqt5gui5t64 libqt5network5t64
libqt5printsupport5t64 libqt5qml5 libqt5qmlmodels5 libqt5qmlworkerscript5
libqt5quick5 libqt5quickcontrols2-5 libqt5quickshapes5
libqt5quicktemplates2-5 libqt5quickwidgets5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5sql5t64
libqt5svg5 libqt5texttospeech5 libqt5waylandclient5 libqt5waylandcompositor5
libqt5widgets5t64 libqt5x11extras5 libqt5xml5t64 libvoikko1 libxcb-record0
libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-xinput0 media-player-info qml-module-org-kde-kcm
qml-module-org-kde-kcmutils qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2
qml-module-org-kde-kitemmodels qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons
qml-module-org-kde-newstuff qml-module-org-kde-runnermodel
qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects qml-module-qtqml qml-module-qtqml-models2
qml-module-qtquick-controls qml-module-qtquick-controls2
qml-module-qtquick-layouts qml-module-qtquick-shapes
qml-module-qtquick-templates2 qml-module-qtquick-window2 qml-module-qtquick2
qt5-gtk-platformtheme qtspeech5-speechd-plugin qttranslations5-l10n
qtwayland5 sonnet-plugins
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
systemsettings*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Purg systemsettings [4:5.27.11-0ubuntu2]

sudo apt autoremove does not remove anything.

Henry

**tea for one** · 3 Weeks Ago

halogen2, quite correctly, offered the command with the simulation flag -s, which prevents anything untoward happening without knowing more info about your system.

The dependencies would not be autoremoved until the parent package had been removed.
If you wish to remove systemsettings and, consequently the dependencies:-

Code:

sudo apt remove systemsettings

Code:

sudo apt autoremove

Enables gnome integration with QT apps

This is one of the features of the script you ran.
Possibly the reason that KDE systemsettings appeared?

By the way, the the github page states "An automated script to set-up Ubuntu as it should be. Tested on Ubuntu 22.04 and 23.04"
No mention of a test for 24.04