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Asked by Sethra

please, help...

How do I UNinstall Seamonkey from Hardy Heron gmone?

I've tried all kinds of help sites and forums and come back to this one because I've always found answers here.

I can use the command line, easy. Just don't want to have to reinstall Ubuntu, it's finally tweaked the way I want.

Thanks

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Hello

give either of the below command in a terminal

sudo apt-get remove seamonkey OR

sudo aptitude purge remove seamonkey

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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Sethra (42margaret-clearwire) said : 		#2

Hi Bhavani, did both commands, result?

sam@Ilisidi:~$ sudo aptitude purge remove seamonkey
[sudo] password for sam:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Couldn't find package "remove". However, the following
packages contain "remove" in their name:
  sylpheed-claws-gtk2-attach-remover libfile-remove-perl
  claws-mail-attach-remover libapache2-mod-removeip
Couldn't find package "remove". However, the following
packages contain "remove" in their name:
  sylpheed-claws-gtk2-attach-remover libfile-remove-perl
  claws-mail-attach-remover libapache2-mod-removeip
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
sam@Ilisidi:~$ sudo apt-get remove seamonkey
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package seamonkey is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
sam@Ilisidi:~$

And after all that, Seamonkey is still there. Sorry, wish it worked. I know this can be solved...

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Elfy (elfy) said : 		#3

try sudo aptitude remove --purge seamonkey

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Sethra (42margaret-clearwire) said : 		#4

Hi forestpixie. Thanks. What does the difference , '--purge', add? I didn't know you could combine remove and purge in the same command.

sudo aptitude purge remove seamonkey
sudo aptitude remove --purge seamonkey

Anyhow, the following dialog is what I got, and Seamonkey is still fully functioning.

sam@Ilisidi:~$ sudo aptitude remove --purge seamonkey
[sudo] password for sam:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
sam@Ilisidi:~$

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madeddie (madeddie) said : 		#5

Hi,

seamonkey is not a normal package, it's a so-called metapackage, it installs seamonkey-browser and seamonkey-mailnews, removing seamonkey does nothing, try

sudo aptitude remove --purge seamonkey-browser seamonkey-mailnews

(the remove uninstalls the package but sometimes leaves some configuration files, --purge makes sure those are removed too)

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Sethra (42margaret-clearwire) said : 		#6

Hi Madeddie,
Thank you for the answer and the explanation, too.