Re: [gNewSense-users] Uninstallling Epiphany .

[Sam Geeraerts]

R.Siddharth schreef:
> I installed icecat as I am really comfortable ( I was using Firefox
> before I switched to gNewSense) with it . Epiphany has now become
> extraneous and I want to uninstall it .  I did indeed tried uninstalling
> Epiphany using the terminal and  this was what that had  happend : 
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> $ sudo apt-get remove epiphany-*
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> The following packages will be removed : 
> epiphany-browser , epiphany-browser-data , epiphany-extensions ,
> epiphany-gecko , gnewsense-desktop . 
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> what pricks me is the 'gnewsense-desktop' that is included in the list
> of packages that are going to be removed . what is this
> 'gnewsense-desktop'? . I never wanted to uninstall 'gnewsense-desktop'
> but only Epiphany .  

gnewsense-desktop is a meta-package for the purpose of making sure you 
have a complete default system. Its dependencies are the applications 
that are installed by default. Because Epiphany is the default browser 
in gNewSense it also depends on that. So if gnewsense-desktop is 
installed then epiphany-browser must be installed as well.

While the gnewsense-desktop package itself is empty, its dependencies 
make sure that you get proper updates. E.g. when Tomboy was replaced by 
Gnote as the default application for notes the dependencies of 
gnewsense-desktop were also changed so that everybody got Gnote with 
their next update. In theory a similar mechanism can also be used to 
make sure some non-free package is removed or replaced if a new one were 
found, but so far we've dealt with that in other ways. But, as the 
package description says, it is recommended that it not be removed.

If you just want Epiphany out of the menu you can use the menu editor 
for that. If you want to set IceCat as the default browser, change the 
web browser in the preferred applications settings to Custom and change 
epiphany to icecat in the textbox.