On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:55:48AM -0500, David Parker wrote: > Does anyone know why Gnome apparently depends on > firefox-esr, and how I can just uninstall firefox-esr and leave Gnome alone? apt-cache show gnome-core | grep Depends It says "... firefox-esr (>= 30) | firefox (>= 30) | chromium ..." so you would need to replace firefox-esr with one of those two alternatives instead of just flat-out trying to remove it.