Uninstall Firefox

[Darryl Tidd]

This has been an interesting trip.  My initial plan was this.  I installed Kubuntu on a computer with WinXP.  Therefore, when I installed Kubuntu pulled in all my settings and stuff for firefox, including add-ons.  I was trying to remove an add-on but couldn't.  I followed the usual uninstall steps, and also the manual uninstall directions posted on a Ubuntu website.  Nothing seemed to work.  Therefore I was going to remove firefox, delete all related directories and reinstall.  (like you can do in winXP).  I guess, being a newbie, I didn't really understand all the dependency issues.  Hitting the wrong key didn't help either.  I did uninstall firefox.  It has been reinstalled with associated (dependant) programs.  I have added the add-ons, and will make any other necessary changes.  I have not lost any data or other important things, so that is the good thing.  Thanks for all the responses and help.
  Darryl

Galvanick Lucipher <gerhardusm2002 at yahoo.es> wrote:
    On Wednesday 17 October 2007 05:34:29 darryl.tidd wrote:
> The plot thickens. [. . .]

If I understand this correctly, ubuntu-desktop is not a package with actual 
programs but merely a list of components that make up the default ubuntu 
desktop (a "metapackage", because its only function is to telly you of other 
packages). It is useful only for upgrade purposes, and removing it has no 
effect at all on how your system works (althought it will be messier to 
upgrade, when the time comes).

One of the items on the ubuntu-desktop list is firefox. If you remove the 
latter, you no longer have all the requisites of the default ubuntu, so the 
former also goes. If you reinstall ubuntu-desktop, it tries to pull all of 
its components, so you get back firefox, OpenOffice, and al the stuff that 
gets installed by default.

My advice: if you don't want to have firefox, OpenOffice, etc, just get rid 
of ubuntu-desktop and the rest of metapackages. They'll make no difference on 
how your system works.

I wish this was better explained in the ububntu documentation, because it 
seems to be a quite frequent source of confussion.

Hope this helps,

- Urtzi -

-- 
QOTD:
"This is a one line proof... if we start sufficiently far to the
left."


Darryl Tidd
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