How to Uninstall Pidgin without Removing the whole Desktop System
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Uninstall just pidgin
:
sudo apt remove pidgin
This will remove just the pidgin
package itself.
Uninstall pidgin
and its dependencies:
sudo apt remove --auto-remove pidgin
This will remove the pidgin
package and any other dependent packages which are no longer needed.
Purging your config/data too:
sudo apt purge --auto-remove pidgin
Caution! Purged config/data can not be restored by reinstalling the package.
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Liam Gutierrez almost 2 years
Pidgin used to be good but can't find any use for it anymore. When I try to uninstall, Synaptic tells me it will remove the Mate Desktop Environment too. Is there a way to only uninstall Pidgin without "throwing half the system overboard"?
Desktop: MATE 1.8.2 Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
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Ravan almost 9 yearsplease refer here
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dobey almost 9 yearsWhy exactly does
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge pidgin
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xangua almost 9 years"Pidgin used to be good " Still is? What is exactly your issue? If you just don't want to use it...you could simple leave it alone.
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Liam Gutierrez almost 9 years@xangua you're right, I leave Pidgin alone and simply remove it from startup and hide it from the apps menu. I don't want to wreck the system because of a few MBs. And I say Pidgin used to be good because I can't bring it to work with Facebook and Twitter anymore. Thanks
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xangua almost 9 yearsFor Twitter probably because whatever third party plugin you are using, it's probably dead as many other Twitter clients have died due to the new limitations Twitter itself promotes for third party apps. For Facebook the api Facebook itself offered was removed, there is a new plugin however that will be part of Pidgin 3 and it is already backported to Pidgin 2. As you can see in both cases, either official or unofficial plugins, were the services that you mention and not Pidgin itself that simply "stopped working". So Pidgin hasn't stopped to be any less good, not to me.
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Liam Gutierrez almost 9 yearsThank you @Ravan but I still see that "The following packages will be REMOVED: pidgin pidgin-extprefs pidgin-libnotify pidgin-themes pidgin-twitter ubuntu-mate-desktop" Ubuntu Mate Desktop is still in the list when I enter your suggested command. I better give up. It looks like Pidgin is heavily nested into the Mate Desktop Environment. I'm a regular user and don't want to mess with dependencies. I will simply hide the Pidgin menu entry from the menu. Nonetheless, thank you for suggestion.
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Elder Geek over 7 years@LiamGutierrez Related: askubuntu.com/questions/681232/…
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BeastOfCaerbannog almost 5 years@LiamGutierrez
ubuntu-mate-desktop
is just a metapackage that installs other Mate-related packages. After the installation of these packages, it can be safely removed. It does not uninstall the Ubuntu Mate desktop environment.