Removing Evolution

Wally wheser at pacbell.net
Thu Jul 17 16:23:44 UTC 2008


Thank you. That seems to have worked.

But since I had never use Synaptic, I was not familiar with it.

WALLY


drew einhorn wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com 
> <mailto:ubuntu at tigershaunt.com>> wrote:
>
>     Wally wrote:
>     > Is there a way to remove the program Evolution?
>     >
>     > When I try to uninstall it using the add/remove application, I get a
>     > message that says to use the Synaptic package manager.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > WALLY
>     >
>     >
>
>     Then use the synapctic package manager :)
>
>     What this means, however, is that there are other programs on your
>     computer that depend on Evolution, and removing Evolution requires
>     removing those as well.  On my Gutsy system, those are just Evolution
>     plugins and what not, so no worries
>
>     BTW, synaptic package manager is in your System -> Administration
>     menu.
>
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> I can remove most, but not all of evolution without Synaptic 
> complaining about dependencies,
> but the next time I run an update they all come back.  Doesn't make 
> sense to me.
>
> -- 
> Drew Einhorn




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