[ubuntu-uk] evolution and gnome

Tony Pursell ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk
Wed Jul 15 17:54:54 BST 2009


On 15 Jul 2009 at 9:08, Rob Beard wrote:

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> Paul Sutton wrote:
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> > Hi
> >
> > I just tried on 8.10 to remove evolution but synaptic told me it would
> > also remove gnome and gnome desktop environment,  why would this happen,
> >  when i have lots of other stuff that also uses gnome.  I said no, but
> > is this a bug in the dependencies.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >   
> Any reason why you want to remove it?
> 
> I'm sure I have removed Evolution before but I believe it removes 
> ubuntu-desktop too (which is the meta package for the desktop) although 
> I can't remember exactly how I did it and I haven't got a machine I can 
> try it on at the moment.  AFAIK it isn't a bug.
> 
> Rob
> 

I think I've been there! It's probably why one of the scruffy bits of paper 
that live under my keyboard has this scribbled on it:

sudo apt-get install gdm ubuntu-desktop

because next time you reboot you only get a console to log in to to 
isue this command.

But I still have Evolution, so it must have been the consequence of 
doing something else.   

Tony





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