Is there a plain KDE version without all the KDE applications available for Ubuntu?

Question

I really like KDE and Ubuntu but I don't need most of the KDE applications, like Kontact or Kopete that will be installed with the usual KDE.

Is there a way I can install KDE (4.7) without all those applications? It makes more sense to manually install the ones I actually use (like Konsole) than uninstalling many.

Solution 1

try sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends kubuntu-desktop

Solution 2

The https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MetaPackages is telling:

kde-base: This metapackage includes the nucleus of KDE, namely the minimal package set necessary to run KDE as a desktop environment. This includes the window manager, taskbar, control center, a text editor, file manager, web browser, X terminal emulator, and many other programs and components.

There has been package naming changes. I think that this is the current nucleus of the KDE:

kde-baseapps

Description: base applications from the official KDE release (meta-package) ... This package provides core applications for the KDE 4 desktop.

The kde-baseapps is depending:

• dolphin
• kde-baseapps-bin
• kdepasswd
• kfind
• konqueror
• plasma-widget-folderview

These may be useful:

• How to completely remove desktop?
• How to remove all traces of KDE installed

Comments

[Uri Herrera]

Install plasma-desktop and then install whatever applications you want.

[Orcris]

sudo apt-get install --no-recommends kubuntu-desktop or if you already have KDE installed, manually remove all the KDE applications.