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Re: Uninstalling Chromium

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Uninstalling Chromium
Date 2021-07-20 20:00 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 01:15:32PM -0400, andrehpb@gmail.com wrote:
> Good afternoon, I am uninstalling chromium from Debian 10 and the
> procedure automatically installs firefox and the same happens when
> uninstalling firefox. How to solve this? Thanks.

You probably have a desktop environment installed which Depends: on
a web browser.  So, when you uninstall one, it falls back to a different
one, in order to satisfy this dependency.

If firefox-esr is currently installed, then you can ask aptitude what's
keeping it here:

aptitude why firefox-esr

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Uninstalling Chromium andrehpb@gmail.com - 2021-07-20 20:00 +0200
  Re: Uninstalling Chromium Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-20 20:00 +0200
    Re: Uninstalling Chromium Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2021-07-20 22:20 +0200
      Re: Uninstalling Chromium Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2021-07-20 22:40 +0200
        Re: Uninstalling Chromium Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-20 23:10 +0200
          Re: Uninstalling Chromium Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2021-07-20 23:30 +0200
      Re: Uninstalling Chromium Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-07-21 11:40 +0200
        Re: Uninstalling Chromium Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-21 12:40 +0200
          virtual package names for web browsers (was Re: Uninstalling  Chromium) Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-07-21 12:50 +0200
            Re: virtual package names for web browsers (was Re: Uninstalling  Chromium) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-21 13:10 +0200
              Re: virtual package names for web browsers (was Re: Uninstalling  Chromium) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-21 13:40 +0200
                Re: virtual package names for web browsers (was Re: Uninstalling  Chromium) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-21 13:50 +0200
                Re: virtual package names for web browsers (was Re: Uninstalling  Chromium) Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-07-21 18:10 +0200

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