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On my Ubuntu 11.10 install, I want to use gpicview instead of eog. Therefore, I'd like to remove eog. Whenever I do sudo apt-get remove eog though, I'm notified that doing this will also remove ubuntu-desktop. But I want to keep using Unity 2D.

How can I remove eog while keeping the Unity-2D session?

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  • Is there any harm in just keeping eog? – zpletan Apr 03 '12 at 16:00
  • Well, not really harm. But it bothers me that image files are getting opened in eog which is slow, compared to gpicview. Of course, I can set every extension to be opened with gpicview, but removing eog would be far easier. – Exeleration-G Apr 03 '12 at 18:25

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I believe ubuntu-desktop is a "metapackage" aka a package of packages. MetaPackages. Thus when you un-install a package in that metapackage it un-installs the metapackage, but not the other packages in the metapackage, so removing eog and letting it un-install ubuntu-desktop should not harm Unity 2D, they made the ubuntu-desktop metapackage for ease of installing many programs and upgrading them all in one go. what-are-the-downsides-of-removing-ubuntu-desktop-metapackage

Edit: Is it safe to remove ubuntu-desktop package? Seems distributions will still upgrade, because it forces install of desktop metapackage, and will still upgrade.

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Mateo
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This answer doesn't remove eog, but it does make setting all pictures to open with gPicView easier.

  1. Type Alt+F2 to get the run dialog, and then type gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/defaults.list. Type in your password at the prompt.
  2. Go to Search->Replace. Replace all instances of eog with gpicview. Close gedit.

That should set everything to use gPicView, and you can go on as if you had uninstalled eog, while still keeping the ubuntu-desktop package.

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