On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:13AM +0100, Brian wrote: > 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.
Thanks for your effort to help me, mucho appreciated! In the light of day the packages it was going to remove were non-essential in the running of gnome-shell. Note to self: Don't do work late in the day. -- 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/20130524112657.gb6...@thunkpad.gateway.2wire.net
