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After I type in my shell:

sudo apt-get --purge remove openssl

I got more than just openssl packages removed, why?

Below is partial output:

(Reading database ... 400426 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing nautilus-share (0.7.3-1ubuntu5) ...
Removing apturl (0.5.2ubuntu4) ...
Removing bluez-cups (4.101-0ubuntu13.1) ...
Removing google-chrome-stable (43.0.2357.124-1) ...
Alan Kis
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Because they depend on something you just said to remove - openssl is the dependency in question. None of those programs can run without it.

For example, when I install something, have a look at the output:

The following extra packages will be installed:
  chkrootkit john john-data procmail sendmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin
  sendmail-cf sensible-mda tripwire

That is because the package I want to install (tiger) needs these - they are dependencies.

Well the same has happened here. nautilus-share, apturl, bluez-cups and google-chrome-stable all need openssl to run - so they are uninstalled at the same time.

Next time you remove something, you will may see something like this:

The following packages will be REMOVED
  akregator amarok amarok-utils anoise anoise-media apport-kde
  apt-xapian-index apturl-kde ark audiocd-kio bluedevil blueproximity

If you see something you want, don't remove the main package. In the case above, I was going to remove python - but that would remove a lot (231) of things.

Tim
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Take a look at the dependencies with aptitude why:

$ aptitude why openssl
i   ca-certificates Depends openssl (>= 1.0.0)
$ aptitude why ca-certificates
i   software-properties-common Depends ca-certificates
$ aptitude why software-properties-common 
i   software-properties-gtk Depends software-properties-common
$ aptitude why software-properties-gtk 
i   ubuntu-desktop Depends software-properties-gtk

$ aptitude why apturl
i   nautilus-share Depends apturl
$ aptitude why nautilus-share
i   ubuntu-desktop Recommends nautilus-share

So, this shows that openssl is installed because it is a dependency of ca-certificates. ca-certificates is a dependency of software-properties-common which again is a dependency of software-properties-gtk. software-properties-gtk finally is a dependency of ubuntu-desktop. So all of these will be removed if you remove openssl. They recursive depend on openssl.

Because of ubuntu-desktop gets removed and nautilus-share is recommended by ubuntu-desktop (and most likely has no other reason for being installed) it will be removed, too. same goes with apturl

Germar
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