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singrium
Asked: 2018-04-27 01:57:48 +0800 CST

What is the purpose of "account-plugin-facebook" package?

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I am using a PC that runs on Ubuntu 16.04. While I was browsing the packages that have been installed, I found this one "account-plugin-facebook" (in addition to many other similar packages like account-plugin-flikr, account-plugin-google...) although I didn't install anyone of them.
My question is: What are these packages for? and can I remove them without any harming my PC?
Thank you.

package-management plugins facebook 16.04

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  1. Best Answer

    This is a GNOME Control Center account plugin for single signon - facebook.

    Which means it is used if you want to login to your facebook account via gnome. I cannot tell you if it can be uninstalled without problems as I use KDE and do not have such a package, but if you try uninstalling it and it does not try to remove a ton of other packages, you should be safe.

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