Remove fortunes-husse package only

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I'd like to remove only the fortunes-husse package on linux mint. Is there a way to remove this that won't remove all parent packages?

Linux Mint Bug #807982 - mintsystem incorrectly depends on fortunes-husse On Linux Mint 11 I tried sudo apt-get remove fortunes-husse. Unfortunately mintsystem depends on this package and removal would cause mintsystem and 7 other packages to be removed. — karel, Jun 17, 2015 at 16:40
@karel, I understood that much. Can I just rm /usr/bin/fortunes-husse or something? — Darth Egregious, Jun 17, 2015 at 17:38
Instead of removing fortunes-husse you could make it into a backup of itself by renaming it using: sudo mv /usr/bin/fortunes-husse /usr/bin/fortunes-husse-backup — karel, Jun 22, 2015 at 13:21

karel · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-21 23:51:02Z

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The results of apt-cache rdepends fortunes-husse show that fortunes-husse has no reverse dependency packages.

$ apt-cache rdepends fortunes-husse
E: No packages found

No other packages depend on fortunes-husse, so you can simply uninstall it.

sudo apt remove fortunes-husse

answered Jun 17, 2015 at 16:34

karel

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