After uninstalling Evolution, "Email Settings" is not removed from system preferences

[Zachary Dunn]

After installing ubuntu 10.10 beta, one of the first things I did was uninstall applications that I do not use, one of which is Evolution. Later I noticed a new item in the system preferences menu called "Email Settings". However, when clicking this option I got an error message:

Could not launch 'Email Settings'
Failed to execute child process "evolution-settings" (No such file or directory)

Since this system preferences item is specifically related to Evolution, it would makes sense to remove it from the system preferences menu if Evolution is uninstalled. I have also noticed a similar phenomenon whereby uninstalling Evolution only removes it from the Applications > Internet sub-menu but not from the Applications > Office sub-menu. It must be manually removed instead.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Which package did you removed? I've removed evolution-common and evolution and it indeed removed the evolution-settings binary.

[Zachary Dunn (zach4618-deactivatedaccount)]

I uninstalled using the software center. Using synaptic to remove evolution-common does indeed fix the problem. So I guess the correct bug to file would be "Uninstalling Evolution from the software center does not remove evolution-common"?

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

apt remove only evolution laying installed evolution-common.
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Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

The cause of this bug is that evolution-common is not removed when Evolution is uninstalled. The non-removal of evolution-common by the Software Centre has been identified as the cause of a couple of bug, including this one, so I'm going to mark this as a duplicated of that one.