Is it possible to strip down KDE to the kde-standard package?
I've been installing KDE packages, and i'm running out of disk space on my root (/) partition. I've made a pastebin with my currently installed packages here: http://pastebin.com/WTsPF4eR . I don't want to remove all of KDE and install kde-standard but I want to remove all parts of KDE that are not in kde-standard. Is this possible and if it is, how?
Start by cleaning the packages:
$ sudo apt-get clean
Then search (e.g., "linux-" from Synaptic) and remove the older kernels. You only need the latest one.
If still more space is to be saved, you can observe what takes space by running the "Disk Usage Analyzer" (I translate from French; you can alternatively fire "baobab" in the command prompt). It is part of Trisquel's default install.
However, the only long-term solution is to enlarge the root partition. If you chose Trisquel's default install, /home is on a separate XFS partition... and it cannot be shrunk. That complicates the process a great deal: you need to back-up /home, remove it, extend the root partition, recreate the partition for /home and move back there the files you backed-up.