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Proper way to disable Evolution services when it's purged already

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Though I have gone through quite a few threads on AskUbuntu, I couldn't find a proper way to disable these Evolution services, especially when Evolution is purged from the system already, in Ubuntu MATE 21.04.

These services are not listed under systemctl list-unit-files --type=service, so I can't use sudo systemctl mask.

ps -ef | grep evolution



admn 1973 1459 0 17:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-source-registry

admn 2023 1459 0 17:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-calendar-factory

admn 2058 1459 0 17:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-factory

These 2 Evolution related packages are still there, because purging them would remove a lot of other packages.

evolution-data-server

evolution-data-server-common

Result of ls -lsh /usr/libexec/evolution*:

$ ls -lsh /usr/libexec/evolution*



 16K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  15K Jun 22 20:57 /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-factory

 48K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  47K Jun 22 20:57 /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-factory-subprocess

116K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 115K Jun 22 20:57 /usr/libexec/evolution-calendar-factory

136K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 135K Jun 22 20:57 /usr/libexec/evolution-calendar-factory-subprocess

 60K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  59K Jun 22 20:57 /usr/libexec/evolution-scan-gconf-tree-xml

124K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 123K Jun 22 20:57 /usr/libexec/evolution-source-registry

 20K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  19K Jun 22 20:57 /usr/libexec/evolution-user-prompter



/usr/libexec/evolution-data-server:

total 116K



 32K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  31K Jun 22 20:57 addressbook-export

8.0K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7.0K Jun 22 20:57 csv2vcard

 52K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  51K Jun 22 20:57 evolution-alarm-notify

 24K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  23K Jun 22 20:57 list-sources

OS: Ubuntu MATE 21.04

evolution-data-server: 3.40.0-1ubuntu1.1

evolution-data-server-common: 3.40.0-1ubuntu1.1

Thanks a lot in advance.

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answered 2 Years ago inciplyies · Accepted Answer

So let's start from the beginning. On the fresh Ubuntu MATE 21.04 I have:

$ ps -ef | grep evolution | grep -v grep

h           2025    1612  1 22:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/evolution-alarm-notify

h           2112    1595  1 22:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-source-registry

h           2230    1595  1 22:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-calendar-factory

h           2250    1595  1 22:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-factory



$ systemctl list-units --type service --user | grep evolution

  evolution-addressbook-factory.service loaded active running Evolution address book service

  evolution-calendar-factory.service    loaded active running Evolution calendar service

  evolution-source-registry.service     loaded active running Evolution source registry

To disable parts of Evolution Data Server one should disable systemd user services by:

systemctl --user mask evolution-addressbook-factory.service

systemctl --user mask evolution-calendar-factory.service

systemctl --user mask evolution-source-registry.service

systemctl --user mask evolution-user-prompter.service

and reboot.

If you want to take radical measures then use below command

sudo apt autopurge evolution-data-server

to remove the package providing above systemd units.

Also please note that removing of remaining three packages named evolution-data-server-common, libecal-2.0-1:amd64 and libedataserver-1.2-26:amd64 will remove ayatana-indicator-datetime. So the resulting system will not have Calendar on the MATE Panel. Do not remove these 3 packages listed above.