Xubuntu 8.04.1 did not remove epiphany completely

[Christian Rüger]

Installing a new system from Xubuntu 8.04.1 i386 CD seems to make some problems, some packages are not installable, also their removing scripts don't work properly in synaptic.

File /var/lib/dbus/machine-id was empty after installation.
Therefore, Avahi and DHCP didn't work.

Did someone test it?

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 2 01:47:56 2009
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: Abhängigkeitsprobleme - lasse es unkonfiguriert
Package: epiphany None
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: epiphany
Title: package epiphany None failed to install/upgrade: Abhängigkeitsprobleme - lasse es unkonfiguriert
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

I am not sure what this report is about. If Epiphany did not install from the CD, that is good, since firefox is installed by default as the browser. After the installation, you would update the system, then install the packages of your choice.

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

The epiphany source package is a game, not a web browser.

[Christian Rüger (grid)]

It was a mistake to type "epiphany" instead of epiphany-browser. But I cannot remove it via synaptic or apt-get. That is the problem.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

I installed epiphany and epiphany-data in a fresh install of 8.04.1 that I first updated to include the latest updates. I played the game, then used "apt-get remove epiphany". This resulted in epiphany being removed, but not the associated epiphany-data, which is installed with epiphany. I then ran Synaptic Package Manager and removed epiphany-data. I had no problem removing this application other than that I did have to remove both parts individually.

Since both epiphany and epiphany-data should have been removed together, I can confirm this as a bug.

Thanks for reporting this issue.

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

Charlie,
I can't read the Deutsch in Christians initial report but I'm fairly sure he's reporting a different problem to you. Removing a package doesn't automatically remove it's dependencies is a known long-standing issue, apt purposefully doesn't automatically remove them. You can remove then via apt-get autoremove

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

@Dean,
I have tried to get to the actual problem here. I know that removing a package does not remove dependencies, but removing a package should mean it was removed. If the package consists of two files/packages, I expect them both to be removed. If I remove evolution, I don't expect to find 5 of 6 packages were not removed. That would be the same thing as removing the menu item and telling me, as the user, that the package is removed. The fact that epiphany and epiphany-data are not removed is a bug.

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 23:38, Charlie Kravetz
<email address hidden> wrote:
> @Dean,
> I have tried to get to the actual problem here. I know that removing a package does not remove dependencies, but removing a package should mean it was removed. If the package consists of two files/packages, I expect them both to be removed. If I remove evolution, I don't expect to find 5 of 6 packages were not removed.

Isn't that exactly what does happen when removing the "evolution" package?

 The fact that epiphany and epiphany-data are not removed is a bug.

Perhaps, I don't think that it's the problem that was originally
reported though.