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I would like to uninstall gmusic browser from my xubuntu installation. I find it does not meet my playback requirements. How do I go about this?

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Just open a terminal and type this command:

 sudo apt-get autoremove gmusicbrowser

You can also use --purge option after apt-get to also remove the configuration files of gmusicbrowser.
This will remove package gmusicbrowser, it's dependencies and most probably xubuntu-desktop package. But, don't worry if you see xubuntu-desktop in the list of removable packages because that package is just a metapackage and removing it does not effect anything in your Xubuntu.

I have executed the command apt-cache depends xubuntu-desktop | grep gmusicbrowser and it shows this line

Recommends: gmusicbrowser

saying, it is only a recommended package, which is not same as Dependency package.

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Anwar
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  • @MarunduMuturi glad to help you. Can you consider accepting the answer? It may help future visitor. Thanks. You can accept it by clicking on the gray tick mark beside the answer – Anwar Sep 11 '12 at 05:50
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    Removing the xubuntu-desktop package isn't that harmless: if it is missing, upgrades to future versions of the distribution may be problematic due to new packages brought in by the meta package not being installed. – James Henstridge Sep 13 '12 at 04:04
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To remove gmusic browser.

Open terminal and run sudo apt-get remove --purge gmusicbrowser

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