Hi! Debian/Kubuntu Qt/KDE work on finally removing Qt 4 and KDE SC 4.14
On my system it is now possible to do this: % LANG=C apt purge kdelibs5-plugins kdelibs5-data kdelibs-bin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: amarok-utils kde-runtime-data libgpgme++2v5 libkactivities6 libkcalcore4 libkdeclarative5 libkjsembed4 libkntlm4 libkrosscore4 libmariadbd19 libpolkit-qt-1-1 libqtscript4-gui libqtscript4-network libqtscript4-sql libqtscript4-uitools libqtscript4-xml libxi6:i386 libxtst6:i386 Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: amarok* kaccessible* kde-runtime* kdelibs-bin* kdelibs5-data* kdelibs5-plugins* kdesdk-misc* kdesudo* kfilereplace* kmtrace* kommander* kppp* kremotecontrol* kscd* ktimetracker* kuser* pairs* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 17 to remove and 1 not upgraded. After this operation, 55.1 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Which means bye, bye Amarok again *sniff*. And then this: % LANG=en apt purge libqtcore4 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: kate-data kde-runtime-data libgpgme++2v5 libkonq5-templates libmariadbd19 libxi6:i386 libxtst6:i386 qt4-qmake qtcore4-l10n scribus-data Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: amarok-utils* appmenu-qt* automoc* katepart* kde-style-breeze-qt4* kde-style-oxygen-qt4* kde-style-qtcurve-qt4* kdoctools* kpart-webkit* libattica-dev* libattica0.4* libdbusmenu-qt2* libgwengui-qt4-0* libkabc4* libkactivities6* libkatepartinterfaces4* libkcalcore4* libkcmutils4* libkde3support4* libkdeclarative5* libkdecore5* libkdesu5* libkdeui5* libkdewebkit5* libkdnssd4* libkemoticons4* libkfile4* libkhtml5* libkio5* libkjsapi4* libkjsembed4* libkldap4* libkmediaplayer4* libkmime4* libknewstuff2-4* libknewstuff3-4* libknotifyconfig4* libkntlm4* libkonq-common* libkonq5abi1* libkopete4* libkparts4* libkpimidentities4* libkpimtextedit4* libkpimutils4* libkprintutils4* libkpty4* libkresources4* libkrosscore4* libktexteditor4* liblastfm1* libmygpo-qt1* libntrack-qt4-1* libphonon-dev* libphonon4* libplasma3* libpolkit-qt-1-1* libqca2* libqca2-dev* libqca2-plugins* libqimageblitz4* libqjson-dev* libqjson0* libqt4-dbus* libqt4-declarative* libqt4-designer* libqt4-dev* libqt4-dev-bin* libqt4-help* libqt4-network* libqt4-opengl* libqt4-qt3support* libqt4-script* libqt4-scripttools* libqt4-sql* libqt4-sql-mysql* libqt4-sql-psql* libqt4-sql-sqlite* libqt4-svg* libqt4-test* libqt4-xml* libqt4-xmlpatterns* libqtcore4* libqtdbus4* libqtgui4* libqtscript4-core* libqtscript4-gui* libqtscript4-network* libqtscript4-sql* libqtscript4-uitools* libqtscript4-xml* libqtwebkit4* libsolid4* libthreadweaver4* phonon* phonon-backend-gstreamer* phonon-backend-vlc* plasma-scriptengine-javascript* plasma-theme-oxygen* plasma-widget-folderview* qdbus* qt-at-spi* qt4-dev-tools* qt4-linguist-tools* qt4-qmlviewer* qt4-qtconfig* scribus* sni-qt* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 108 to remove and 1 not upgraded. After this operation, 233 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] If you rely on some of the things being removed here, just do not do this for now. And hope that in more KF 5 / Qt 5 ports become available and are packaged, before … … sooner or later apt may ask for the removal of something you used when upgrading the system. Also most of the stuff above is RM'd from Debian archive already and *won't* receive any security updates from now on anymore. Those who rely on Scribus: Install scribus-ng, which is Qt 5 based. The removal of Qt 4 and KDE SC 4.14 has been overdue. It is not supported by upstream for quite some time now. Best, -- Martin
