evolution uninstalls gnome & gnome-desktop-environment

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. I just tried, but failed, to reproduce it on my machine. The step I took was to run (in a terminal) "sudo apt-get autoremove evolution abiword gnome-games" and then I examined the list of packages that would be removed. I did not see any indication that GNOME would be uninstalled.

Can you please elaborate on how exactly you ran in to the problem, as well as how you installed GNOME and those programs in the first place? Is this a standard installation from the CD distribution, or did you perhaps install GNOME manually at some earlier point? Thanks!

It's not the GNOME from the distribution CD, I did install it manually after
uninstalling EVOLUTION caused it to be uninstalled. when I tried the
uninstalls I tried them first in Synaptic Package Manager then in
terminal...

I commanded:

sudo apt-get remove (program name here.)

Here's an example:

jonathan@David:~$ sudo apt-get remove evolution
[sudo] password for jonathan:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for jonathan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  menu-xdg desktop-base gthumb python-beagle gnome-games-extra-data
libdiscid0
  cheese gnome-network-admin hardinfo gthumb-data kdelibs-data gnome-themes
  liblualib50 swfdec-gnome libsoup2.2-8 p7zip gnome-themes-extras gdm-themes
  arj gnome-volume-manager python-4suite-doc gnome-backgrounds gnome-spell
  libswfdec-0.8-0 swfdec-mozilla gnome-core gnome-netstatus-applet
  python-4suite-xml liblua50 deskbar-applet serpentine sound-juicer
  libmusicbrainz3-6 gnome-vfs-obexftp
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  evolution evolution-exchange evolution-indicator evolution-plugins gnome
  gnome-desktop-environment
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 10.9MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Regards,
TSWMIN85

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Felix Crux <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. I just tried, but failed,
> to reproduce it on my machine. The step I took was to run (in a
> terminal) "sudo apt-get autoremove evolution abiword gnome-games" and
> then I examined the list of packages that would be removed. I did not
> see any indication that GNOME would be uninstalled.
>
> Can you please elaborate on how exactly you ran in to the problem, as
> well as how you installed GNOME and those programs in the first place?
> Is this a standard installation from the CD distribution, or did you
> perhaps install GNOME manually at some earlier point? Thanks!
>
> ** Package changed: ubuntu => gnome-desktop (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-desktop (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> evolution uninstalls gnome & gnome-desktop-environment
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396342
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gnome-desktop” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> 1) Ubuntu 9.04
>
> I tried to uninstall some "gnome games," evolution, and abiword, but they
> all also uninstall GNOME and the GNOME DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT. I'd tried using
> terminal and only abiword uninstalled without affecting GNOME and the GNOME
> DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT.
>
> I was able to reinstall GNOME, which in turn also installed the GNOME
> DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT, but all the programs come back.
>

It's not the GNOME from the distribution CD, I did install it manually after uninstalling EVOLUTION caused it to be uninstalled. when I tried the uninstalls I tried them first in Synaptic Package Manager then in terminal...

I commanded:

sudo apt-get remove (program name here.)

Here's an example:

jonathan@David:~$ sudo apt-get remove evolution
[sudo] password for jonathan:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for jonathan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  menu-xdg desktop-base gthumb python-beagle gnome-games-extra-data libdiscid0
  cheese gnome-network-admin hardinfo gthumb-data kdelibs-data gnome-themes
  liblualib50 swfdec-gnome libsoup2.2-8 p7zip gnome-themes-extras gdm-themes
  arj gnome-volume-manager python-4suite-doc gnome-backgrounds gnome-spell
  libswfdec-0.8-0 swfdec-mozilla gnome-core gnome-netstatus-applet
  python-4suite-xml liblua50 deskbar-applet serpentine sound-juicer
  libmusicbrainz3-6 gnome-vfs-obexftp
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  evolution evolution-exchange evolution-indicator evolution-plugins gnome
  gnome-desktop-environment
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 10.9MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Regards,
TSWMIN85

gnome-desktop is the about GNOME dialog and a library and your issue is not a bug

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