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Re: Uninstalling Chromium

From Weaver <weaver@riseup.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Uninstalling Chromium
Date 2021-07-20 22:40 +0200
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On 21-07-2021 06:17, Christian Britz wrote:
> On 20.07.21 19:58 Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> 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
> In my case it is meta package gnome-core. It is a pity that it doesn't
> have an alternative dependency on www-browser, this would be satisfied
> by google-chrome-stable, which I prefer over chromium.

There are plenty of others, quite stable.
Falkon is as quick as any of them, if you're happy to work around one or
two minor discrepancies from a stripped down process that keeps it that
way.
I have three installed, because I do a little web design work, and I
need them for checking, but to each his own.
For example, I wouldn't touch Chrome.
Cheers!

Harry.

-- 
`When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty' 
-- Thomas Jefferson

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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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