Unable to remove applications, help

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GrevenGull
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Iscritto: 12/18/2017

When I try to uncheck an application (Liferea or Pidgin) it says that one or more program is dependent on it and I should use Synaptic Package Manager. But when I click on Synaptic Package Manager, nothing happens :/

Magic Banana

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Iscritto: 07/24/2010

Launching the "Synaptic Package Manager" (typing the following command) from a terminal emulator may reveal a useful error message:
$ synaptic-pkexec

GrevenGull
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Iscritto: 12/18/2017

When I did that, it made me type the password, and then it worked :)*

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Iscritto: 07/07/2017

Pidgin and Lifrea are part of GNOME, your desktop environment (assuming that you are using Trisquel 7). If you remove them along with their dependencies you might accidentally remove something important. If you don't plan to use these applications (give Liferea a chance though, I like it a lot) and you aren't hurting for disk space, you may be better off just hiding them from your menu.

GrevenGull
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Iscritto: 12/18/2017

Ok, that explains a lot lol. I just removed them and was struggling like a sucker.

So I wiped my hard disk and installed the whole OS again :P

This time around I'm gonna take things a little slower lol