Frank wrote: > I recently installed the cinnamon desktop in my Sid installation > which of course brought in Icedove and Ice Weasel as well as a number > of other programs. > > Is there any way to eliminate them, as I have been running Thunderbird > and firefox. Trying to purge them results in aptitude wanting to > purge a lot of other stuff, including the cinnamon-desktop-environment.
The usual suggestion is to use the 'equivs' package to create a local replacement package for iceweasl and the others. The local package would provide the iceweasel name so that dpkg thinks they are installed but in reality it is simply an empty package holding the name. $ apt-cache show equivs Description-en: Circumvent Debian package dependencies This package provides a tool to create trivial Debian packages. Typically these packages contain only dependency information, but they can also include normal installed files like other packages do. . One use for this is to create a metapackage: a package whose sole purpose is to declare dependencies and conflicts on other packages so that these will be automatically installed, upgraded, or removed. . Another use is to circumvent dependency checking: by letting dpkg think a particular package name and version is installed when it isn't, you can work around bugs in other packages' dependencies. (Please do still file such bugs, though.) Bob
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