You can remove pidgin-facebookchat and pidgin entirely. First you have to clear up the broken packages. Do not worry about the mint-meta-gnome message. It will only remove that package. It is telling you that it is part of mint-meta-package. You will not be removing Mint, albeit not complete.
I do this all of the time with Ubuntu. Whenever I install Ubuntu it installs Mono and Mono apps which I won''t have on my computer. I get the same warning. It is going to remove ubuntu-desktop. All it does is remove the parts you don't want and it is telling you that you now don't have the whole thing installed. I take it with a grain of salt and plough full steam ahead without a problem. It of course is your choice. The package in question should no longer be part of mint-meta anyway as it is now included with pidgin and this is why you get the error message. It is Mint's problem to fix and they are usually quite good about doing so. Time will likely fix it anyway, but you should not fear removing it and such dire warnings in the future. Roy Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit Location: Canada On 30 December 2010 08:15, Scott Vargovich <[email protected]> wrote: > WSiaB, > I'm not sure. I switched to using Empathy. That might be a viable option > for you to consider. Before you do that, however, why don't you try 'sudo > apt-get -f install' and if it breaks, post the output. It might give us a > better idea of what's going on. > Thanks, > Scott > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:37 AM, WSiaB <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> How do I remove pidgin-facebookchat in Mint 10? >> >> sudo apt-get remove pidgin-facebookchat >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> mint-meta-gnome : Depends: pidgin-facebookchat but it is not going to be >> installed >> pidgin : Depends: pidgin-data (>= 1:2.7.9) but 1:2.7.7-1~getdeb1 is to be >> installed >> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or >> specify a solution). >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > -- > <>< Scott Vargovich <>< > ------------------------------------------ > OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E > ------------------------------------------ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
