On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 10:58:22AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Any attempt to remove cura or brltty, removes gnome leaving me I assume with > a text only system by the time gnome takes all its dependency's with it.
"assume" This is your fundamental problem here. Do you know what the "gnome" package actually contains? hobbit:~$ apt-cache show gnome Package: gnome Source: meta-gnome3 Version: 1:43+1 Installed-Size: 14 [...] Installed size is 14. I'm pretty sure that's kilobytes. "gnome" is a meta-package. Its purpose is to depend on a whole bunch of other packages. That's all. It doesn't actually do anything by itself. Removing "gnome" will not remove any functionality, because "gnome" does not *have* any functionality. As long as you don't do an "apt-get autoremove" afterward, nothing else will be deleted, other than what apt-get told you it was going to delete.
