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gruszczy
Asked: 2011-02-03 07:53:51 +0800 CST

How do I remove Tomboy without removing Gnome?

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I would like to remove Tomboy application, but when I run

apt-get remove tomboy

I get information that also gnome application will be removed. How can this be prevented?

Or maybe this could be achieved: how I can remove tomboy and keep all other packages that come with gnome?

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  1. Best Answer

    There isn't any package named gnome. I think you meant ubuntu-desktop

    Either your system does not have proper packages list. Do a sudo apt-get update to check if everything is in order

    If the problem still comes, check what all are contained in the package. Chances are high that it is a metapackage. It means that a package which has multiple packages as it's dependencies. Meta-packages don't contain anything. If you want to install say kubuntu on already existing ubuntu installation then all you need to do is to install kubuntu-desktop which will take care of the packages which need to be installed.

    Now if you remove any single of the package which are dependency of that meta-package, then that meta-package is shown to be removed.

    Don't worry, your whole gnome is not going to be removed. Only the meta-package is going to be unchecked as the dependency requirement for that package is not fulfilled.

    I am not very much sure what the problem you are getting. Probably the solution I explained might not be the solution to your problem, nevertheless I thought it is good to explain what all problems can exist with the same symptoms.

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  2. If you want to remove Tomboy, APT also want to remove ubuntu-desktop. It's safe to remove, because ubuntu-desktop is just a meta-package.

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  3. You were very close initially to removing tomboy notes. simply add sudo before your command and that should work. I tested on my system and no more tomboy notes.

    sudo apt-get remove tomboy
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