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I am trying to uninstall empathy from my Ubuntu 12.10. So I issued the following command

sudo apt-get purge empathy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  account-plugin-identica account-plugin-twitter gir1.2-messagingmenu-1.0

Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  account-plugin-aim* account-plugin-jabber* account-plugin-salut* account-plugin-yahoo* empathy* **gnome* gnome-core*** mcp-account-manager-uoa* nautilus-sendto-empathy*

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

After this operation, 8,664 kB disk space will be freed.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

It is trying to remove gnome and gnome-core by default. Will it really uninstall gnome as well? How do I uninstall empathy without affecting gnome?

EDIT: As suggested by vasa1 in the comments, I tried marking the packages as manual using

sudo apt-mark manual gnome gnome-core

That also didnt help.

thefourtheye
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  • BTW, what do you see when you run `dpkg --get-selections | grep gnome` because I just noticed it wants to remove `gnome*`? –  Apr 06 '13 at 12:20
  • The list is too big to post here... https://gist.github.com/thefourtheye/5325938 – thefourtheye Apr 06 '13 at 12:25
  • There are a couple of older questions where such a problem of removing gnome* and gnome-core* wasn't reported: http://askubuntu.com/q/93266/25656 and http://askubuntu.com/q/62664/25656. I don't know whether something has changed with 12.10. –  Apr 06 '13 at 12:30
  • Yup... In my machine, it says it will remove gnome and gnome-core :( – thefourtheye Apr 06 '13 at 12:32
  • Okay, I'll delete my answer but all the best. Maybe you can just leave empathy installed? –  Apr 06 '13 at 12:34
  • BTW, did you try `sudo apt-mark manual gnome gnome-core` or `sudo apt-mark manual gnome* gnome-core*`? –  Apr 06 '13 at 12:37
  • I tried without * marks. – thefourtheye Apr 06 '13 at 12:38

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If, as appears to be the case, gnome and gnome-core depend on empathy (or some other package that depends on it), even if you manage to uninstall empathy without removing packages that depend on it, whatever depends on it won't work and you'll (in this case) wind up with a system that, at best, will boot to a command line. It may not even complete booting to a text login prompt, depending on what else depends on empathy, through whatever length chain.

Zeiss Ikon
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Open synaptic package manager and type empathy in the search box and remove that single package.

Vasa1 gave us CLI way and I am giving GUI way .

Raja G
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