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.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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