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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

Liam Gutierrez
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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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