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I installed nemo. Now would like to uninstall Nautilus.... one problem.... all that is attached to it that wants to uninstall as well..... I am using Cinnamon Desktop

When I uninstalled all of mate I lost banshee, not a big deal, just installed rhythmbox.

You could just install Thunar or PCManFM if you lose Nautilus.

Are you using apt-get remove nemo from the terminal, Synaptic mark for removal, or trying to do the removal in Software Manager?

Let me clarify. In a Cinnamon Desktop, how to use Nemo only and uninstall Nautilus without damaging my Cinnamon desktop installation. That's the problem. I realize I worded that oddly. I will go back and edit it.

what is the output of (it will only perform a simulation, no real action taken)

Thanks. I don't know what my problem was. Maybe i tried it from synaptic. I could swear it wanted to take out some cinnamon files with it. I need to stop staying up so late.

sudo apt-get remove nautilus-open-terminal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
aptoncd gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 mint-artwork-debian mint-meta-debian-core mint-themes xdg-user-dirs-gtk
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mint-meta-debian-cinnamon nautilus-open-terminal
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 274 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.




sudo apt-get remove nautilus-data
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
aptoncd gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 libnemo-extension1 mint-artwork-debian mint-meta-debian-core mint-themes nemo-data python-gpgme
xdg-user-dirs-gtk
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
cinnamon file-roller gnome-control-center gnome-power-manager gnome-session gnome-session-fallback gnome-settings-daemon gnome-shell
mint-meta-debian-cinnamon nautilus-data nemo nemo-dropbox nemo-fileroller
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 13 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 44.7 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.



sudo apt-get remove libnautilus-extension1a
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
aptoncd gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 mint-artwork-debian mint-meta-debian-core mint-themes xdg-user-dirs-gtk
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
brasero evince file-roller gecko-mediaplayer gnome-mplayer libnautilus-extension1a mint-meta-codecs mint-meta-debian-cinnamon
nautilus-open-terminal totem totem-plugins
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 11 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 13.3 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

ok i got it recurrent dependencies
see this cinnamon depends on gnome-settings-data (let's not forget that cinnamon is heavily based on gnome3 (gnome-shell) and this one depends on nautilus-data

so, easy answer: you can remove nautilus but not the related libraries.

Ok, Gotcha. Thanks.