Ubuntu's gnome-shell extensions can't be uninstalled (safely)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu's gnome-shell extensions can't be uninstalled (safely), because doing so would also remove ubuntu-desktop...
$ sudo apt remove gnome-shell-
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gir1.
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 3 to remove and 1 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 756 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] ^C
$ sudo apt remove gnome-shell-
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gir1.
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 3 to remove and 1 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 223 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
$ sudo apt remove gnome-shell-
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gir1.
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 3 to remove and 1 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 309 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
affects: | gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: groovy |