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I was going to remove the GStreamer app from my Ubuntu environment with these commands:

sudo apt-get remove gstreamer sudo apt-get purge gstreamer

When I entered the first line I noticed it said it was going to install something:

Terminal output:

The following NEW packages will be installed: policykit-1-gnome 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 112 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 25.0 kB of archives. After this operation, 240 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n

What is this policykit-1-gnome and is it safe to proceed?

thanks...

Ed Delauter
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  • You should be more concerned about "112 to remove" – user535733 Oct 13 '23 at 02:02
  • Is that saying it wants to remove 112 packages? 240 MB seems rather large for just removing this one app. What is the correct way to go about investigating this? I will leave it alone if there is a chance it will corrupt or render useless my OS. – Ed Delauter Oct 14 '23 at 02:53
  • Start investigating with sudo apt update and then sudo apt upgrade. DON'T agree to any removal; abort the upgrade instead if necessary. Copy the upgrade output and read it line by line. Review the proposed removals and look for patterns. – user535733 Oct 14 '23 at 03:23
  • @user535733 The sudo apt update & upgrade output did not reveal much: Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done

    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

     – Ed Delauter Oct 14 '23 at 13:17
  • It reveals that your system is apparently not broken. A good starting point. – user535733 Oct 14 '23 at 14:23

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