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List of safe to remove applications

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I would like to ask if there is any list of pre-installed applications in Ubuntu which are safe to remove.

Once, I tried to uninstall unnecessary applications from Software center, but it created some bugs. For example, I lost some icons from System settings, and then I had to do sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop to recover lost data.

I would like to remove unnecessary applications, but I don't want to break my system.

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answered 3 Years ago sweetrifiabl · Accepted Answer

You first need to define what considers "break my system". A system without a desktop is not broken as is.

Besides that: the safest way is what you did and to take a look at this by "category" from Ubuntu Software Center and the "installed" group.

Accessories

Books & Magazines

Developer Tools

Education

Fonts

Games

Graphics

Internet

Medicine

Office

Science & Engineering

Sound & Video

Themes & Tweaks

Universal Access

Besides "accessories" any of these should be safe to remove and will not remove anything important since they all point to applications. Remove them 1 by 1 and do pay attention to the list of packages it is offering to delete just in case.

And when in doubt check the packages online for what is depending.

1 more comment: what you did was probably overkill; to get those icons back in system settings all you had to do is re-install that specific packages. This should have been enough to fix it:

sudo apt-get remove unity-control-center

sudo apt-get install unity-control-center