> > $ sudo apt purge transmission && sudo apt install transmission > > Hmm, that seems to have worked. No idea why, but thanks for the tip. I > would have tried that before posting here, but for some reason I thought > Transmission was part of the default desktop package, and that if I tried > to uninstall it, apt would want to uninstall all the default DE packages > with it.
$ apt depends trisquel | grep transmission Recommends: transmission-gtk It looks like the trisquel metapackage recommends, rather than depends on, transmission-gtk. "transmission" actually appears to be a metapackage. $ apt depends transmission transmission Depends: transmission-common (>= 2.84-3ubuntu3.1) |Depends: transmission-gtk (>= 2.84-3ubuntu3.1) |Depends: transmission-qt (>= 2.84-3ubuntu3.1) Depends: transmission-cli (>= 2.84-3ubuntu3.1) Recommended packages, unlike dependencies, can be removed without removing the parent package. However, even if trisquel depended on transmission, it would still be safe to remove: If a metapackage A has dependencies B, C, and D, removing D does remove A, but does not remove B or C. A doesn't actually do anything except install its dependencies, so removing it is harmless, usually. An exception is a situation like upgrading from Belenos to Flidas. If a Belenos user has removed trisquel, then when upgrading the Flidas the *new* dependencies of trisquel (like mate-desktop-environment) will not be installed, resulting in a broken desktop.
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