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I've installed kubuntu desktop on ubuntu 18.04 with tasksel. How can I uninstall it?

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AFS
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If you installed it via sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop you can uninstall it by

sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop --autoremove

To be safe, run the reconfigure on your login manager.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3

After that, you might need to reboot your machine.

Bernard Wei
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  • I've installed kubuntu desktop with tasksel sudo tasksel install kubuntu-desktop – AFS Aug 24 '18 at 18:37
  • @AFS could you find any solution without breaking the whole system? – ggnoredo Apr 09 '19 at 00:38
  • @AFS I'm running sudo tasksel remove kubuntu-desktop now. I'll update this comment if it worked. If not, it means my laptop exploded – Jules Colle Nov 09 '19 at 13:17
  • No wonder @JulesColle didn't came back, I tried the same and I barely got my system back to semi working state - can't install newer kernels as they don't boot :/ – Leszek Zalewski Nov 20 '19 at 10:42
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    DO NOT RUN THIS! sudo tasksel remove kubuntu-desktop. It uninstalls EVERYTHING. The only way I found to fix this was to reinstall Ubuntu. – Jules Colle Jan 25 '20 at 19:13
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Synaptic as mentioned by @N0rbert, (with completely remove option) was the only way to fully remove all traces of Kubuntu. Everything worked perfectly.

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