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Bug#865274: apt: can't remove firefox-esr without installing firefox



Sorry, mistype. Should be 'When I remove firefox-esr, it prompts Firefox will be installed, converse, it asked me to install Firefox-esr'.

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:58 PM Peter Zhang <pengzhangsdcn@gmail.com> wrote:
I have gnome and Chrome installed, chromium had been removed.

When I remove firefox-esr, it prompts Firefox will be installed, converse, it asked me to install Firefox. I can't remove both of them. When I was in testing suite with Gnome as desktop, I can remove both of them.

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:49 PM Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 03:32:56PM +0800, Peter wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.4.6
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>
> *What led up to the situation?
> I upgraded from testing to sid recently. As I am using Chrome i/o Firefox, I
> want to remove Firefox-esr which installed as default.
>
> *What exactly did you do that was effective?
> I did it in termial via 'sudo apt remove firefox-esr'
>
> What was the outcome of this action?
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following additional packages will be installed:
>   firefox
> Suggested packages:
>   fonts-stix | otf-stix fonts-lmodern mozplugger
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   firefox-esr
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   firefox
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 47.1 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 1,119 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

That's really not helpful. Could you try removing both (and more, depending
on what pops up), please? Or run with the debugging options mentioned in the
README.md.

That said, do you have cinnamon or gnome installed? Both require
a firefox (or a chromium, but don't allow chrome).

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