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Seth
Asked: 2012-12-20 18:22:14 +0800 CST

How Can I Remove Epiphany Without Removing Gnome?

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I have Gnome Shell installed, and I want to remove the Epiphany browser. But when I click uninstall in the software center its says that Gnome-core is a dependency of Epiphany, so it will be uninstalled too.

Is there anyway I can remove Epiphany without removing Gnome?

On running sudo apt-get -s remove epiphany as a commenter suggests, returns as not installed. Its still in my program list though.

I found out, the package that is installed is epiphany-browser. On running sudo apt-get -s remove epiphany-browser it still wants to remove gnome-core.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Gnome-core is just a metapackage. You can remove it without much ill effect.

    Its only provided files are a changelog and a copyright file. It won't "hold" dependencies installed, you run a minor risk there, but nothing major.

    Reference

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  2. You need to remove the epiphany-browser package. And if you installed any extra packages:

    sudo apt-get remove epiphany-browser epiphany-browser-data epiphany-browser-data epiphany-extensions
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