How do I uninstall Evolution?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 22:14 -0700, michael wilson wrote:
> If you go to the package installer and search on evolution you get a
> list of many things.

27 in my case (searching for package names), 8 of which are installed

> If you "completely uninstall" everything that is evolution* ubuntu
> will not boot correctly after you log in.  

Yes, because contrary to what people claim, it is not "bloated" (many
features != bloated). It is split into various parts, some of which are
used by other applications. For example, the panel's calendar applet
reuses the evolution calendar.

>   So evolution cannot be completely uninstalled from the package
> installer.

It can, one just needs to know what one is doing 

> The package installer claims to remove 106MB

I don't know _what you are uninstalling, but you should only be
uninstalling these, which will, according to my PC, free 116 MB

evolution, evolution-exchange evolution-common, evolution-plugins,
evolution-webcal, openoffice.org-evolution

You should leave evolution-data-server and evolution-data-server-common
installed, as they are used by other parts of the desktop.

As others have suggested, given modern hard disk sizes it is
questionable whether removing it is even worth it, just hide the icon in
the menu. But as you have seen, it is possible.

> I guess ubuntu is not that stable after all.  I am up to my 5th clean
> install tonight trying to get rid of evolution.  Configuring ubuntu is
> not a quick process so we are up to about 4 hours trying to figure
> this out.

You can hardly blame Ubuntu for stability when it is you who breaks his
box.