How do I uninstall Evolution?

[michael wilson]

Just a note to other readers.  If you COMPLETELY UNINSTALL the packages
suggested here, your gnome desktop will not load and you cannot run any
programs and the only fix is a clean reinstall.

You must chose to remove, not completely remove.

Enjoy.

Michael

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:03 AM, John Toliver <john.toliver at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  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. If you "completely uninstall" everything that is evolution*
> ubuntu will not boot correctly after you log in.  After you enter your login
> information the desktop appears but no top and bottom bar.  So evolution
> cannot be completely uninstalled from the package installer.
>
>
> You still need to read about the packages because many of the libraries
> that are used are Ubuntu libararies that evolution also makes use of.  When
> you search in synaptic for Evolution, It will bring up every instance of a
> package with evolution in either the title, and the description.  I don't
> have the time right now to give you a good example as I've got classes soon
> but do this: once Hardy is reinstalled, search for the main packages of
> evolution (evolution-common, evolution, evolution-data-server, and
> evolution-data-server-common) then remove them, (not everything that comes
> up in the search list).  It's just the basic packages you want to get rid
> of, and if you care to, the profile it creates in your /home directory.
> Once you do that then yes Evolution won't start.  The panels rely on some
> integration with evolution as you can click on the clock for example and see
> your schedule etc. and I think completely removing all mention of evolution
> causes panels to stop working.  The GNOME team chose to INTEGRATE evolution,
> meaning it's part of the desktop experience.  So yes, completely removing
> all aspects (scorched earthing it) will cause the panels and other odd
> problems. But leaving certain pieces in place shouldn't (I haven't tested
> this) cause evolution to boot if say you went to the CLI and typed
> "evolution".
>
> With that being done, install Thunderbird and have a happy :-)
>
>
>   Patience yields far greater results than brute force or rage ever could
> so relax......it's just life !!!
>
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