Hi. On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:55:48AM -0500, David Parker wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running Debian 9.5 (amd64) and attempting to uninstall firefox-esr. > However, apt says that gnome and gnome-core are among the packages which > will also be uninstalled. Does anyone know why Gnome apparently depends on > firefox-esr, and how I can just uninstall firefox-esr and leave Gnome alone?
Both packages are metapackages that do not provide any contents but only dependencies to other packages. $ apt-cache show gnome | grep Section Section: metapackages $ apt-cache show gnome-core | grep Section Section: metapackages Seeing this Depends in gnome-core: Depends: ...firefox-esr (>= 30) | firefox (>= 30) | chromium... I suggest you to install chromium first if you value gnome-core for some reason. Reco