No that didn't work either. I selected to remove kstars in that bunch of aplications above and to install gedit (as a test). This is what happend:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: kdepim blinken kmoon ksim kdessh kanagram libpth20 kmrml kleopatra kdemultimedia-dev kruler ktux klettres dirmngr kdepim-kfile-plugins libkiten1 konsolekalendar klatin kfloppy kstars ttf-dustin ipw2200-firmware-3.0 keduca kandy libcpufreq0 kmplot kalzium klinkstatus kpovmodeler ksayit kmouth kworldclock kalzium-data kdewebdev amor ktouch ktnef khexedit kdeaccessibility kvoctrain kdetoys kimagemapeditor kwordquiz kview ttf-sjfonts kdenetwork libtiff-tools kttsd dcoprss klettres-data kdf libksba8 kig gnupg-agent fifteenapplet kfaxview kstars-data edict kgamma kfilereplace kommander networkstatus kdegraphics khangman libindex0 kanjidic kxsldbg quanta kiconedit libmal1 libkdeedu3 kiten libsynaptics0 eyesapplet kdeedu kdelirc kpercentage kjots kfax kget pinentry-qt kgpg libpowersave10 libboost-python1.33.1 kolourpaint gpgsm gnupg2 kturtle ktimer quanta-data kteatime kverbos kodo Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: kdeedu kstars 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 6803kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 285396 files and directories currently installed.) Removing kdeedu ... Removing kstars ... :~$ sudo apt-get install gedit Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: kdepim blinken kmoon ksim kdessh kanagram libpth20 kmrml kleopatra kdemultimedia-dev kruler ktux klettres dirmngr kdepim-kfile-plugins libkiten1 konsolekalendar klatin kfloppy ttf-dustin keduca kandy libcpufreq0 kmplot kalzium klinkstatus kpovmodeler ksayit kmouth kworldclock kalzium-data kdewebdev amor ktouch ktnef khexedit kdeaccessibility kvoctrain kdetoys kimagemapeditor kwordquiz kview ttf-sjfonts kdenetwork libtiff-tools kttsd dcoprss klettres-data kdf libksba8 kig gnupg-agent fifteenapplet kfaxview kstars-data edict kgamma kfilereplace kommander networkstatus kdegraphics khangman libindex0 kanjidic kxsldbg quanta kiconedit libmal1 libkdeedu3 kiten libsynaptics0 eyesapplet kdelirc kpercentage kjots kfax kget pinentry-qt kgpg libpowersave10 libboost-python1.33.1 kolourpaint gpgsm gnupg2 kturtle ktimer quanta-data kteatime kverbos kodo Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: gedit-common The following NEW packages will be installed: gedit gedit-common 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1873kB of archives. After unpacking 19.1MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Why can't I just decide for myself what I want to install and what I want to keep? Again this is down to official Kubuntu sources only. More over the list of applications suggested for removal appears to be growing - each time I install something new. -- The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required https://launchpad.net/bugs/75068 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs