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I have Raspberry Pi 3 running Ubuntu Mate 16.04.

I'd like to uninstall all the crap I don't need, and among the first candidates is LibreOffice. However, when I try to uninstall LibreOffice, I'm warned that this would also uninstall ubuntu-mate-desktop:

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-calc

The following packages will be REMOVED:
    libreoffice-calc ubuntu-mate-desktop

I believe I do want to in fact keep ubuntu-mate-desktop.

I'm getting the same message when trying to remove other packages I don't need/want (e.g. caja-wallpaper).

Why is this? How do I correctly uninstall LibreOffice (and other software/packages)?

Staring Frog
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  • As the text says, you cannot remove LibreOffice. Probably just a funny idea (or an error) introduced by the Mate package builder. Other OS´s with 'Mate Desktop' : LibreOffice isn't required. Examples Fedora, PCLinuxOS. - A theoretically solution : Repack the Mate package that says Dependencies : libre-* - – Knud Larsen Jun 02 '16 at 22:34
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    Uninstalling ubuntu-mate-desktop will not do any harm. It is a meta package. – Pilot6 Jun 03 '16 at 07:51

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