UbuntuOne in Kubuntu Precise?

[SteveRiley]

Yes, the language could be made clearer. Here's what the man page says for remove:

remove
remove is identical to install except that packages are removed instead of installed. Note the removing a package leaves its configuration files in system. If a plus sign is appended to the package name (with no intervening space), the identified package will be installed instead of removed.

In apt vernacular, remove means uninstall.

(And I especially love how the description begins. "Remove is completely identical to install, except it does just the opposite." Heh.)

[Snowhog]

In apt vernacular, remove means uninstall.

No, not 'always'.

clean
clean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. It removes everything but the lock file from /var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/. When APT is used as a dselect(1) method, clean is run automatically. Those who do not use dselect will likely want to run apt-get clean from time to time to free up disk space.

autoclean
Like clean, autoclean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. The difference is that it only removes package files

Here, remove doesn't mean to uninstall; it means what the word implies (and what clean/autoclean actually does), which is to remove [read:delete] the .deb package files.

[SteveRiley]

Good catch. Yeah, remove really becomes ambiguous here because it's overloaded.

[Snowhog]

Not much gets past Sherlock Tux!

[moray33]

There might be a bunch of dependencies left over. What's the output of

apt-get -s autoremove

moray33@Jose:~$ apt-get -s autoremove
NOTA: ¡Esto es sólo una simulación
      apt-get necesita privilegios de administrador para la ejecución real.
      Tenga también en cuenta que se han desactivado los bloqueos,
      ¡no dependa de la relevancia a la situación real actual!
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias       
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
Los siguientes paquetes se ELIMINARÁN:
  brasero-cdrkit brasero-common desktop-file-utils gconf-service gconf-service-backend gconf2 gconf2-common
  gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10 gir1.2-rb-3.0 gnome-desktop3-data gnome-user-guide hwdata
  indicator-application indicator-messages indicator-status-provider-mc5 language-pack-gnome-en
  language-pack-gnome-en-base launchpad-integration libappindicator3-1 libbrasero-media3-1 libburn4 libcanberra-gtk3-0
  libcanberra-gtk3-module libgconf-2-4 libgmime-2.6-0 libindicator-messages-status-provider1 libindicator3-7 libisofs6
  libjte1 liblaunchpad-integration-3.0-1 liblaunchpad-integration-common libpeas-1.0-0 libpeas-common libquvi-scripts
  libquvi7 librhythmbox-core5 libtotem-plparser17 libyelp0 media-player-info python-dirspec python-gst0.10
  python-libxml2 python-mako python-markupsafe python-zeitgeist rhythmbox-data yelp yelp-xsl zeitgeist-core
0 actualizados, 0 se instalarán, 50 para eliminar y 0 no actualizados.
Remv brasero-cdrkit [3.4.0-0ubuntu2]
Remv libbrasero-media3-1 [3.4.0-0ubuntu2]
Remv brasero-common [3.4.0-0ubuntu2]
Remv desktop-file-utils [0.20-0ubuntu2]
Remv libcanberra-gtk3-module [0.28-3ubuntu3]
Remv gconf2 [3.2.5-0ubuntu2]
Remv gconf-service [3.2.5-0ubuntu2] [gconf-service-backend:amd64 ]
Remv gconf-service-backend [3.2.5-0ubuntu2]
Remv libgconf-2-4 [3.2.5-0ubuntu2]
Remv gconf2-common [3.2.5-0ubuntu2]
Remv gir1.2-rb-3.0 [2.96-0ubuntu4]
Remv gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 [0.10.36-1]
Remv gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10 [0.10.36-1ubuntu1]
Remv gnome-desktop3-data [3.4.0-0ubuntu4]
Remv gnome-user-guide [3.4.0-1]
Remv hwdata [0.233-1ubuntu1]
Remv indicator-application [0.5.0-0ubuntu1]
Remv indicator-status-provider-mc5 [0.6.0-0ubuntu1]
Remv indicator-messages [0.6.0-0ubuntu1]
Remv language-pack-gnome-en [1:12.04+20120412] [language-pack-gnome-en-base:amd64 ]
Remv language-pack-gnome-en-base [1:12.04+20120322]
Remv launchpad-integration [0.1.56]
Remv libappindicator3-1 [0.4.92-0ubuntu1]
Remv libburn4 [1.1.8-1]
Remv libcanberra-gtk3-0 [0.28-3ubuntu3]
Remv librhythmbox-core5 [2.96-0ubuntu4]
Remv libtotem-plparser17 [3.4.0-1]
Remv libgmime-2.6-0 [2.6.7-1]
Remv libindicator-messages-status-provider1 [0.6.0-0ubuntu1]
Remv libindicator3-7 [0.5.0-0ubuntu1]
Remv libisofs6 [1.1.6-1ubuntu1]
Remv libjte1 [1.19-1]
Remv yelp [3.4.0-0ubuntu1]
Remv liblaunchpad-integration-3.0-1 [0.1.56]
Remv liblaunchpad-integration-common [0.1.56]
Remv libpeas-1.0-0 [1.2.0-1ubuntu1]
Remv libpeas-common [1.2.0-1ubuntu1]
Remv libquvi7 [0.4.0-1]
Remv libquvi-scripts [0.4.2-1]
Remv libyelp0 [3.4.0-0ubuntu1]
Remv media-player-info [16-1]
Remv python-dirspec [3.0.0-0ubuntu1]
Remv python-gst0.10 [0.10.22-3]
Remv python-libxml2 [2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4]
Remv python-mako [0.5.0-1]
Remv python-markupsafe [0.15-1]
Remv zeitgeist-core [0.9.0-1]
Remv python-zeitgeist [0.9.0-1]
Remv rhythmbox-data [2.96-0ubuntu4]
Remv yelp-xsl [3.4.0-1]

Wow, are all that packages useless?