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| From | Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Uninstalling Chromium |
| Date | 2021-07-20 22:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <CD4H0-4WT-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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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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