Re: Remove Evolution
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:13AM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 23 May 2013 at 22:59:00 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:06:23PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > > On Wed 22 May 2013 at 07:34:03 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'd like to remove Evolution from my Debian laptop installation as I use
> > > > my browser to access email/calendar online via my tablet or phone.
> > > >
> > > > When I attempt to do so, aptitude informs me that it will remove pretty
> > > > much the entire Gnome-Shell as well. How do I remove what I want while
> > > > keeping my desktop whole (sans Evolution)?
> > >
> > > With aptitude:
> > >
> > > http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article8/uninstall-meta-package
> > >
> > >
> > ---end quoted text---
> >
> > Unfortunately this suggestion didn't work. I had already marked
> > Evolution packages as manually installed.
>
> You may have done but the blog page doesn't offer that as a technique.
> We may as well put its advice here:
>
> Well, there is a solution: marking all the dependencies of the
> meta-package as manually installed, that is, faking that you installed
> them explicitly Aptitude is able to do that with its powerful search
> functions:
>
> aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome)'
> aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome-core) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome-core)'
> aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome-desktop-environment) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome-desktop-environment)'
>
> This works for me to purge Evolution without removing other needed
> software.
Thanks for your effort to help me, mucho appreciated! In the light of
day the packages it was going to remove were non-essential in the
running of gnome-shell. Note to self: Don't do work late in the day.
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Cheers,
Stephen, Toronto
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