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TheGeeko61
Asked: 2011-12-21 22:32:37 +0800 CST

Removing gnome-screensaver also wants to remove gnome-core

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I am on Ubuntu 11.10. I hope to be able to replace gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver. I have read instructions on many sites that one simply uninstalls gnome-screensaver and then installs xscreensaver.

However, when I request removing gnome-screensaver, the system wants to remove much more than just the gnome-screensaver.

TheGeeko61> sudo apt-get remove gnome-screensaver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnome gnome-core gnome-screensaver
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 483 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

(Surely they cannot collectively add up to only 483 kB.) Must I really remove gnome and gnome-core?

11.10

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You do not really need to remove gnome-screensaver , disable gnome-screensaver (and enable xscreensaver) in gnome-session-properties

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    If you really wish to remove it you may as gnome and gnome-core are meta packages, similar to ubuntu-desktop. meta packages are a list of packages to be installed.

    See Ubuntu Wiki Metapackages for details

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