Hello, I'm running Debian 9.5 (amd64) and attempting to uninstall firefox-esr. However, apt says that gnome and gnome-core are among the packages which will also be uninstalled. Does anyone know why Gnome apparently depends on firefox-esr, and how I can just uninstall firefox-esr and leave Gnome alone?
Thanks! # apt-get remove firefox-esr Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: empathy empathy-common fonts-stix hyphen-en-us libdiscid0 libjsoncpp1 libreoffice libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-report-builder-bin libtelepathy-farstream3 mythes-en-us sound-juicer telepathy-gabble telepathy-salut Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: firefox-esr gnome gnome-core iceweasel libarchive12 libepc-1.0-3 libepc-ui-1.0-3 libgnutls-deb0-28 libgnutls28 libhogweed2 libhogweed2:i386 libnettle4 libnettle4:i386 task-gnome-desktop 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 14 to remove and 82 not upgraded. After this operation, 121 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. -- Dave Parker '11 Database & Systems Administrator Utica College Integrated Information Technology Services (315) 792-3229 Registered Linux User #408177