On Thu 23 May 2013 at 22:59:00 -0400, 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 > > > > > ---end quoted text--- > > Unfortunately this suggestion didn't work. I had already marked > Evolution packages as manually installed.
You may have done but the blog page doesn't offer that as a technique. We may as well put its advice here: Well, there is a solution: marking all the dependencies of the meta-package as manually installed, that is, faking that you installed them explicitly Aptitude is able to do that with its powerful search functions: aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome)' aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome-core) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome-core)' aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome-desktop-environment) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome-desktop-environment)' This works for me to purge Evolution without removing other needed software. -- 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/20130524101112.GD3596@desktop
