Hello cortman,
cortman <c0rtm4n@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately this does not appear to have solved it after all- after
> running both apt-get install on the packages empathy wanted to remove
> (gnome, gnome-core, gnome-desktop-environment, task-gnome-desktop) and
> apt-mark manual, attempting to purge empathy tries to remove these
> same packages again.
> I marked Empathy itself as manually installed; that didn't work either.
You cannot install gnome, gnome-core, gnome-desktop-environment or
task-gnome-desktop without installing empathy. If you want to remove
empathy but keep the other packages normally pulled in by gnome, you
will have to mark _these_ (rhythmbox, libreoffice etc.) as installed
manually.
Best regards,
Claudius
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