How can I remove the Evolution package completely?

Question

how can I remove Evolution and all related packages? I feel like I don't need them.

Answer 1

from a terminal window give the following command to remove evolution completely

sudo apt-get purge evolution

After this re-validate using dpkg -l|grep -i evolution and remove any other evolution related packages using same command as above.

Answer 2

Open System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager

Search For Evolution and mark them for complete removal

Now Apply the changes .

Now a new window will open and click apply again .

Evolution will be removed.

Answer 3

Following up on Jamess's answer: For my Ubuntu 13.04, purging the following packages removes evolution and all of its dependencies:

apt-get purge evolution-common libevolution

As noted before, don't remove evolution-data-server and friends.

Answer 4

I tried twice to remove Evolution following the advise above. The result was that the panels disappeared. The system was Ubuntu 11.04.

The only way I have found so far is to run sudo apt-get install unity-2d. This returns the panels and the functionality of Ubuntu. And yes, Evolution has disappeared. Unity-2d returns the icons, I have just managed to get rid of the indicator. It seems that the panels are connected to Evolution somehow.

Answer 5

I'm running gnome-classic on 12.10. When I uninstalled evolution it also uninstalled evolution-common and gnome - this last made me nervous but in fact things work fine after - and after login the desktop is ready in a fraction of the time it used to be. (oh and I suggest removing zeitgeist also if you don't use the desktop search features - this also slows things down at login).