vanilline wrote:...That doesn't help, I'm afraid. Firefox seems to be immortal in LM 8
So, do I need to remove LM to get rid of Firefox?
Funny
What about try the classic stuff:
sudo apt-get remove firefox
vanilline wrote:...That doesn't help, I'm afraid. Firefox seems to be immortal in LM 8
So, do I need to remove LM to get rid of Firefox?
You should read all the posts before replying. This whole thing is about removing firefox after installing Chromium or Chrome or anything else. You can't without the software manager installing something else in it's place.willie42 wrote:If I am not mistaken you can get another browser install it then get rid or Firefox since its being so bothersom to you. I use Chromium. You can get Opera or Seamonkey to replace FireFox.
Works perfectly for meviking777 wrote:Firstly I must say that removing Firefox is a big waste of time imho. If something matters to you on Linux (or probably windows as well) then you need two of it - browsers, email clients, media players, backups, even distros - I could go on and on with that list it really depends on what is important to you. Having said that if you want to remove anything and cant do it with apt then try aptitude.
Before you do this you must do two things.
First runthen runCode: Select all
sudo aptitude update
Otherwise aptitude thinks that everything it hasn't installed is surplus to requirements and might attempt to remove the whole lot!Code: Select all
sudo aptitude keep-all
Having done that you can then runand you will get the following results, or something similar:Code: Select all
aptitude purge firefox
This does two things. Firstly it explains why you are going round and round in circles with other browsers and the like, and secondly explains what you can do about it.Code: Select all
sudo aptitude purge firefox The following packages will be REMOVED: firefox{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 29.3 MB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: sun-java6-plugin: Depends: firefox but it is not going to be installed. or firefox-2 which is a virtual package. or iceweasel but it is not going to be installed. or mozilla-firefox which is a virtual package. or iceape-browser but it is not going to be installed. or mozilla-browser which is a virtual package. or epiphany-gecko but it is not going to be installed. or epiphany-webkit but it is not going to be installed. or epiphany-browser but it is not going to be installed. or galeon but it is not going to be installed. or midbrowser which is a virtual package. or moblin-web-browser which is a virtual package. or xulrunner but it is not going to be installed. or xulrunner-1.9 which is a virtual package. or konqueror but it is not going to be installed. or chromium-browser but it is not going to be installed. or midori but it is not going to be installed. mint-search-addon: Depends: firefox but it is not going to be installed. or firefox-3.0 which is a virtual package. or firefox-2 which is a virtual package. or abrowser which is a virtual package. or flock which is a virtual package. or songbird which is a virtual package. or iceweasel but it is not going to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) mint-search-addon 2) sun-java6-plugin Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
viking777 wrote:Firstly I must say that removing Firefox is a big waste of time imho. If something matters to you on Linux (or probably windows as well) then you need two of it - browsers, email clients, media players, backups, even distros - I could go on and on with that list it really depends on what is important to you. Having said that if you want to remove anything and cant do it with apt then try aptitude.
Before you do this you must do two things.
First runthen runCode: Select all
sudo aptitude update
Otherwise aptitude thinks that everything it hasn't installed is surplus to requirements and might attempt to remove the whole lot!Code: Select all
sudo aptitude keep-all
Having done that you can then runand you will get the following results, or something similar:Code: Select all
aptitude purge firefox
This does two things. Firstly it explains why you are going round and round in circles with other browsers and the like, and secondly explains what you can do about it.Code: Select all
sudo aptitude purge firefox The following packages will be REMOVED: firefox{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 29.3 MB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: sun-java6-plugin: Depends: firefox but it is not going to be installed. or firefox-2 which is a virtual package. or iceweasel but it is not going to be installed. or mozilla-firefox which is a virtual package. or iceape-browser but it is not going to be installed. or mozilla-browser which is a virtual package. or epiphany-gecko but it is not going to be installed. or epiphany-webkit but it is not going to be installed. or epiphany-browser but it is not going to be installed. or galeon but it is not going to be installed. or midbrowser which is a virtual package. or moblin-web-browser which is a virtual package. or xulrunner but it is not going to be installed. or xulrunner-1.9 which is a virtual package. or konqueror but it is not going to be installed. or chromium-browser but it is not going to be installed. or midori but it is not going to be installed. mint-search-addon: Depends: firefox but it is not going to be installed. or firefox-3.0 which is a virtual package. or firefox-2 which is a virtual package. or abrowser which is a virtual package. or flock which is a virtual package. or songbird which is a virtual package. or iceweasel but it is not going to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) mint-search-addon 2) sun-java6-plugin Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]