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Pomario
Asked: 2012-10-30 11:06:13 +0800 CST

Can I uninstall Seahorse from Ubuntu 12.10 without side effects?

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I find Ubuntu (12.10)'s Seahorse intrusive and annoying and I would like to remove it using Ubuntu Software Center. If I do so, could it potentially cause me problems with future Ubuntu upgrades?

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    For Ubuntu 12.10

    From the description of seahorse 

    apt-cache show seahorse

    Description-en: GNOME front end for GnuPG Seahorse is a front end for GnuPG - the GNU Privacy Guard program - that integrates to the GNOME desktop. It is a tool for secure communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be performed through a GUI and Key Management operations can easily be carried out through an intuitive interface.

    Also when you attempt to unistall seahorse you will se that ubuntu-desktop will uninstalled.

    But ubuntu-desktop is a metapackage that is not recommnded to unistall it

    from the description of ubuntu-desktop 

    apt-cache show ubuntu-desktop

    This package depends on all of the packages in the Ubuntu desktop system . It is also used to help ensure proper upgrades, so it is recommended that it not be removed.

    , so you have to install it again with this command

    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

    but when you attempt to install ubuntu-desktop again you will notice that seahorse package will be installed. Depends each other. So I assume is not a good decision to remove seahorse.

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