Uninstall Pidgin
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Is there a way to uninstall Pidgin, or will uninstalling Pidgin remove my whole desktop?
I use Gajim for IM.
You will just uninstall Pidgin. It's safe.
sudo apt remove pidgin
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Thanks! How is that possible? I thought Pidgin was part of a "trisquel" metapackage, so if you removed it, you remove the entire metapackage.
Pidgin is a dependency of trisquel-recommended or the equivalent metapackage of the chosen edition.
Removing the metapackage will do just that, it will not remove the desktop. All other dependencies of the metapackage will remain installed.
I am not completely sure about the possible consequences of running autoremove after removing a metapackage, but it looks like all the dependencies of trisquel-recommended are marked as "manual" (manually installed) and not "auto". So even if the metapackage is removed, its dependencies should not be uninstalled by running autoremove.
You can always use the -s option in order to run a simulation and see what would happen:
apt -s autoremove