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Removing popularity-contest without trashing the system?

rated 0 times [ 12] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 13361 / 3 Years ago, wed, october 6, 2021, 5:16:19

I do want to uninstall the "popularity-contest" package from my system.

While I know that I can disable it with

$ dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest

it is still a package I want removed.

Unfortunately, the "ubuntu-standard" package depends on it (instead of just having it recommended). Removing popcon would thus remove ubuntu-standard, and my system would be trashed. See Popularity Contest should be uninstallable for the features request to make it uninstallable.

Until that bug is fixed, I need a way to get it uninstalled.

How can I do that? Is there a trick to convince the package manager that the dependency is not necessary?

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answered 3 Years ago oleard · Accepted Answer

Given that ubuntu-standard is a metapackage, removing it do not imply the removing of any other package, nor the removing of some functionality:

$ sudo apt-get --simulate purge popularity-contest 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  popularity-contest* ubuntu-standard*

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 13 not upgraded.

Purg ubuntu-standard [1.245]

Purg popularity-contest [1.53ubuntu1]