On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:52:29AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 23 mai 13, 22:59:00, 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 > > > > Unfortunately this suggestion didn't work. I had already marked > > Evolution packages as manually installed. > > I haven't read the link above, but marking Evolution as manually > installed would not help you. Imagine the following: > > Package: gnome > Depends: gnome-core, > evolution, > etc. > > The package 'gnome' is just a metapackage meant to pull all the others. > If you try to uninstall evolution the package manager will have to > uninstall the gnome metapackage as well (because the dependency is > broken). If the other packages are marked as automatically installed it > will want to remove them as well (not needed). What I would suggest is > (the order matters): > > - mark evolution as automatically installed > - mark any component of gnome you want to keep as manually installed > - remove the gnome metapackage > > If there are no circular Depends or Recommends this should also remove > evolution, but if it didn't you will have to do it manually. > > Beware, this is not tested, you might need to adjust it a bit, but the > principle is the same. Also aptitude's visual mode is best suited for > this. Press 'g' once and you will be presented with all proposed > actions. Go through the list and press '+' on every package you want to > keep.
Thanks Andre. I don't use or care for aptitude interactive -- I use it from the command line. :) However your advice is good, and worked. Didn't realize when I wrote the 1st email that the Gnome metapackage it wanted to remove was/appears to be the classic version, which I don't use. So removing it, wasn't an issue as I use Gnome-Shell. All is well, evolution is removed and I'm a happy Debian Stable, laptop user once again. -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+ Profile | http://goo.gl/JbQsq -- 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/20130524112108.ga6...@thunkpad.gateway.2wire.net
