How can I unistall Evolution without removing Gnome?

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I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 with the Gnome desktop. When I installed Gnome, it automatically installed Evolution mail client. I'd like to remove Evolution, but when I try to uninstall it through the Software Center, it wants to remove Gnome-core as well. Is there a way to uninstall Evolution without removing any of the Gnome software?

I have the same problem, but I would like to describe it more thoroughly, in hopes of finding a more complete answer. I'll link it when I post. — Dan Ross, Mar 14 '17 at 20:43

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 10 '13 at 22:37

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The gnome-core package is a meta-package. As Evolution is part of 'GNOME' it includes a dependency on the evolution package as well. It is completely safe to remove gnome-core as it won't remove all of GNOME (or any of it, as it's a meta-package).

answered Mar 10 '13 at 22:37

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When I try to remove evolution's packages from synaptic it also wants to remove unity stuff and etc, that's why I'm afraid to delete it – Yehonatan Tsirolnik Jun 09 '14 at 08:02

How can I unistall Evolution without removing Gnome?

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