Ubuntu not letting me remove stuff like serpentine

Craig321

Craig321

Craig321

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Hi,

I really don't use Ubuntu for word processing, media etc. so I'm removing it all.

I've been trying to remove serpentine, but whenever I mark it for complete removal in synaptic it says it needs to remove ubuntu-desktop as well.

Any ideas please?

Thank you,
Craig.
 
ubuntu-desktop is ok to remove but you may have difficulty upgrading to the next release.

Can i ask why you need to uninstall this software?? It doesnt actually take up much room.
 
brummie said:
ubuntu-desktop is ok to remove but you may have difficulty upgrading to the next release.

Can i ask why you need to uninstall this software?? It doesnt actually take up much room.
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I don't really need to uninstall it, but I don't use it so I wanna get rid of it :)

I like to uninstall stuff that's no use to me.

Craig.
 
Hmm no easy way around this afaik: From debian's APT documentation "There is no way to remove a package using APT without also removing those packages that depend on it."

However you could uninstall serpentine and then reinstall gnome-desktop, bit of a roundabout way to do it but it shouldnt have any ill effects.
 
The command-line dpkg tool is far more suited for this sort of thing, as it ignores dependancies when removing a package :) Put this into a terminal:
Code: 
sudo dpkg -u serpentine

That should remove serpentine, but be aware that if there's anything that explicitly depends on it (These should be highlighted when you attempt to remove it in Synaptic, so it sounds like ubuntu-desktop is the only one) it may stop working properly.

-Leezer-
 
Craig321 said:
I really don't understand why the Ubuntu desktop relies on so many of the built in applications :confused:

Anyway, I'll the above 2, thank you :)
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Its a metapackage!
In other words, it depends on all the major desktop GUI components so that they can all be upgraded simultaneously.
It should be removable with no ill effects IIRC :)

-Leezer-
 
leezer3 said:
Its a metapackage!
In other words, it depends on all the major desktop GUI components so that they can all be upgraded simultaneously.
It should be removable with no ill effects IIRC :)

-Leezer-
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That's a bit silly for the Ubuntu guys to build it like that :rolleyes: :p

I shall backup and remove some packages and see what happens.

Thanks,
Craig.
 
Craig321 said:
I don't really need to uninstall it, but I don't use it so I wanna get rid of it :)

I like to uninstall stuff that's no use to me.

Craig.
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linux doesn't slow down like windows does if you have extra packages installed - so there's no need to get rid of it.
 
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