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Since I don't use evolution, I decided to disable it by following these directions: https://askubuntu.com/a/694515/381089

The poster says that, "This should be done using dpkg divert and whatever, to not confuse apt/dpkg when you upgrade your system." I'm not too sure what he means by this. I tried the following command: sudo dpkg-divert --divert /dev/null /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.AddressBook.service which seemed successful, but when I repeated the same command for org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Calendar I got an error saying that it conflicts with the previous command.

Am I completely mistaken in how I'm using dpkg-divert?

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Alcuin Arundel
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    Looking at [the examples in the manpage](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/en/man1/dpkg-divert.1.html), `dpkg-divert --divert /dev/null /foo/bar` diverts `/dev/null`, not `/foo/bar`. You want the other way around. – muru May 20 '16 at 22:00
  • I look at those examples quite a few times and I'm pretty sure I got the order correct. It says "To divert all copies of a `/usr/bin/example` to `/usr/bin/example.foo`, i.e. directs all packages providing `/usr/bin/example` to install it as `/usr/bin/example.foo`, performing the rename if required: `dpkg-divert --divert /usr/bin/example.foo --rename /usr/bin/example`. Notice the file being diverted is the last argument in the command. – Alcuin Arundel May 21 '16 at 00:07
  • Instead of diverting everything to /dev/null, I did the following: `sudo dpkg-divert --divert /tmp/org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.AddressBook.service --rename /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.AddressBook.service`, doing likewise for `Calendar.service`, `Sources.service`, and `UserPrompter.service`. – Alcuin Arundel May 21 '16 at 00:11

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