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vrcmr
Asked: 2011-03-28 04:27:58 +0800 CST

How can I remove the Evolution package completely? [duplicate]

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how can I remove Evolution and all related packages? I feel like I don't need them.

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5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    from a terminal window give the following command to remove evolution completely

    sudo apt-get purge evolution

    After this re-validate using dpkg -l|grep -i evolution and remove any other evolution related packages using same command as above.

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  2. Open System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager

    Search For Evolution and mark them for complete removal

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    Now Apply the changes .

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    Now a new window will open and click apply again .

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    Evolution will be removed.

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  3. Following up on Jamess's answer: For my Ubuntu 13.04, purging the following packages removes evolution and all of its dependencies:

    apt-get purge evolution-common libevolution

    As noted before, don't remove evolution-data-server and friends.

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  4. I tried twice to remove Evolution following the advise above. The result was that the panels disappeared. The system was Ubuntu 11.04.

    The only way I have found so far is to run sudo apt-get install unity-2d. This returns the panels and the functionality of Ubuntu. And yes, Evolution has disappeared. Unity-2d returns the icons, I have just managed to get rid of the indicator. It seems that the panels are connected to Evolution somehow.

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  5. I'm running gnome-classic on 12.10. When I uninstalled evolution it also uninstalled evolution-common and gnome - this last made me nervous but in fact things work fine after - and after login the desktop is ready in a fraction of the time it used to be. (oh and I suggest removing zeitgeist also if you don't use the desktop search features - this also slows things down at login).

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