Ok- I must have misunderstood- apparently there's no way to uninstall empathy without also uninstalling the gnome metapackages, the trick is to mark all the contents of the packages as manually installed, therefore you can uninstall the metapackage safely.
Correct? Regards, Cortman On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Claudius Hubig <debian_1...@chubig.net> wrote: > Hello cortman, > > cortman <c0rt...@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 > -- > A board is the planck unit of boredom. > http://chubig.net telnet nightfall.org 4242 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADFAa3L8pkHP4xOwSXR8iVVPdx=wtifocrtwfcx5vmvggp5...@mail.gmail.com
