Cannot remove kde4 after installation

[Shahar Weiss]

I've entered the Add/Remove menu item, and decided to install KDE4.
When I wanted to remove it, I went to the same screen and chose to remove it.
It seems that only the metapackage was removed, and none of its dependencies were removed with it.

I tried issuing "sudo apt-get autoremove", but it did not suggest anything.

Ubuntu version: 8.04 64bit

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

Thanks for submitting this issue and helping to make ubuntu better.

This does not seem to be a bug. A meta-package installs all the packages (recursively) that are dependend on it. However the package itself is not dependend on any of those (but in fact reverse dependent).

Therefore, removing the meta-package works exactly as expected.

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

[Shahar Weiss (sweiss3)]

Hello.
I've tried checking it using apt-cache, I've attached the output.
According to apt-cache, the package depends on a lot of package, and has no reverse dependencies.

Also, according to my understanding, reverse dependencies refer to the packages which depend on the package in question, and installing a dependency does not normally install all of the packages which depend on it.