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#5
Originally Posted by wolke View Post
removing facebook removes mp-harmattan-005-pr, which is the meta-package that most of harmattan rests upon. it is FINE to remove this, if you know what youre doing; just dont autoremove all the necessary packages, instead mark them as manually installed.

and use apt-cache depends to mark the dependencies as manually installed.
Aha, now we're getting somewhere.

Code:
~ $ apt-cache rdepends facebook
facebook
Reverse Depends:
  mp-harmattan-001-pr
  mp-harmattan-001-pr

~ $ apt-cache depends mp-harmattan-001-pr | grep -i facebook
  Depends: account-plugin-facebook
  Depends: webupload-service-facebook
  Depends: facebook
  Depends: signon-facebookplugin
  Depends: l10n-app-facebookshare
  Depends: l10n-app-facebook
I now know why things went so wrong The mp-harmattan-001-pr shouldn't be removed, that's clear. But how to achieve this? Can packages be uninstalled without triggering the reverse dependencies?

As you can see, I'm quite new to Linux/package management. Could you give us a pointer on how to proceed?