It seems all my workstations have monero-gui installed automatically with normal updates. How can I safely remove it?
user@host:~$ sudo apt remove monero-gui
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
dummy-dependency
The following packages will be REMOVED:
monero-gui qubes-whonix-workstation whonix-workstation-packages-recommended-gui
whonix-workstation-shared-packages-shared-meta
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dummy-dependency
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 351 MB disk space will be freed.
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Usually difficult as per Debian Packages - Whonix
But in this case maybe easier since package dummy-dependency can satisfy the dependency.
sudo apt install dummy-dependency
sudo apt remove monero-gui
Untested.
More info on dummy-dependency.
apt-cache show dummy-dependency
Description: dummy package to satisfy architecture specific dependencies
A metapackage, which satisfies the dependency on:
.
- bindp
- lkrg
- kloak
- hardened-malloc
- tb-updater
- tb-starter
- tb-default-browser
- secbrowser
- tirdad
- binaries-freedom
- monero-gui
.
This package cannot provide a real implementation of that package. It is only
a dummy to satisfy the dependency.
.
Safe to remove if its removal does not remove another metapackage, which is
not safe to remove.
dummy-dependency was designed for a different purpose but it might work here too. I haven’t tested if it will prevent upgrading of any other packages such as tb-updater but I guess chances are good there won’t be issues.
Why remove monero-gui anyhow? It does not conflict with any locally installed monero binaries (such as testing versions or something) if you do not start any binaries provided by monero-gui / not start if from start menu.