SlackTip # 2: Remove KDE Completely
For whatever reason, you may have decided that you no longer want KDE on your Slackware system , so you have chosen to remove it completely, including its packages.
One of the ways to remove packages within Slackware is through the pkgtool tool (as root ).
# pkgtool
Among the many options in pkgtool we find Remove.
From here we must select package by package the ones we want to be eliminated.
But maybe you are a novice user or you prefer to have no problem deleting a wrong package by mistake.
Fortunately, for these cases we have a very simple alternative that will allow us to completely remove KDE from our Slackware system . It is a tool called slackpkg which comes integrated with Slackware . If for some reason it is not installed on your system, you can download it from Sourceforge and install it using installpkg.
The removal process would be as follows, as root we type:
# slackpkg remove kde
This will present us with a screen showing all the KDE packages to be removed in case we want to keep any of them (after all).
Once we are sure, we click or select the <Accept> option . This will trigger the deletion of all selected packages.
When it finishes, it will show us the prompt again, which indicates that we no longer have KDE in our Slackware.
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