I'm not sure if I should be posting this here, so let me know if I need to remove it. I could not fix apt with any of the methods listed above, nor could I remove any of the kde-telepathy packages with purge. The fix for my problem seemed to be `sudo apt-get purge kde-telepathy*` as opposed to removing each file individually. This fixed apt and allowed me to remove kde-desktop. The answer was found here. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2289185
I'm not sure if I should be posting this here, so let me know if I need to remove it. I could not fix apt with any of the methods listed above, nor could I remove any of the kde-telepathy packages with purge. The fix for my problem seemed to be `sudo apt-get purge kde-telepathy*` as opposed to removing each file individually. This fixed apt and allowed me to remove kde-desktop. The answer was found here. ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?t=2289185
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