I recently Installed Debian 10 with KDE Plasma desktop environment. I chose this desktop environment because it is modern and looks great. The customization is also over the top making it the best flavor out there for me.
I noticed that it comes with a lot of bloatware which I can't seem to uninstall. The reason for this is that removing those packages will also remove other important packages.
I will put a list here with all the packages I am willing to remove, and what other packages will automatically be removed with them.
- Okular(document viewer) - kde-standard, task-kde-desktop
- Gwenview(image viewer) - kde-standard, task-kde-desktop
- Kaddressbook - kde-standard, task-kde-desktop
- Akregator(feed reader) - kde-standard, task-kde-desktop
- Kopete(messenger) - kde-standard, task-kde-desktop
- kmail - kde-standard, task-kde-desktop
- konqueror - kde-baseapps kde-plasma-desktop kde-standard konq-plugins task-kde-desktop
- juk(music player) - kde-standard, task-kde-desktop
- Dragon player(video player) - kde-standard, task-kde-desktop
The list goes on like this. I do not want to write all of them down, you probably get the idea.
If possible I want to remove all programs, but of course keep using KDE. Is there a way to remove these programs safely? And if not, is there a way to hide them from my program menu? I do not need any of them and it is bothering me a lot that they are there.
apt-mark
to flag the packages you want as being manually installedapt-mark manual pkg1 pkg2 pkg2 ....
. This will prevent them from being uninstalled when the meta-packaged is removed. – cas Aug 2 '19 at 9:06sudo apt-mark manual kde-plasma-desktop
it just tells mekde-plasma-desktop was already set to manually installed
. Nothing changed executing this command andsudo apt-get remove konqueror
still has the same result. – mike Aug 2 '19 at 13:28