APT

Uninstall Chromium, forces install of Firefox??

Bug #1022244 reported by Daniel Clem
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Bug Description

I have copied the below text from a comment I made on another package. It was unrelated, but I made the comment at the time because I was unsure what package to report this to. As it was happening in the Terminal when apt-get removing, in Lubuntu Software Center, and in Synaptic. So I think it is actually a problem with a underlying thing that is common to all of them. Please move to the proper package.

Thank You and God Bless.

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  I had a strange issue in package management. I wanted to uninstall Chromium from Lubuntu (cause I prefer Midori, much lighter, faster, and has all the needed extensions included by default) But when I did remove Chromium, Firefox was automatically installed. I have no idea why. So I uninstalled Firefox, and then Epiphany was install (also called "Web"), I uninstalled Epiphany, then for some reason, Rhythmbox was installed. And it continued to get more strange from there. The only way I was able to solve this, was use Synaptic, and each time a package was marked to be installed because I was removing another, I "unmarked".

   It took about 10 or 15 minutes, but finally got all the strange packages removed. But it was very frustrating to have to go through all that just cause I wanted to remove Chromium. >:-( This is the only installation that I've ever had this problem with.

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Stephen Smally (stephen-smally) wrote : Re: [Bug 1022244] [NEW] Uninstall Chromium, forces install of Firefox??

This is an apt behavior (it doesn't depend on LSC), an easy solution is
to install first midori then uninstall chromium, it should work.

Changed in lubuntu-software-center:
status: New → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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RobinJ (robinj) wrote :

Does not work, and it's definitely an (extremely annoying) bug. I'm the user. So I want control about what happens on my system, and not get forced into something. The same problem when trying to replace Chromium with proper Chrome.

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Histesh Shah (chimak111) wrote :

@RobinJ, I've started a thread about this over at ubuntuforums.org (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2061033).

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