Cannot uninstall imagemagick

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I just want to uninstall imagemagick from Ubuntu 16.04. When I run sudo apt remove imagemagick I get this output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
fonts-jsmath gnuplot-data gnuplot-tex gnuplot-x11 liblua5.1-0 maxima maxima-doc maxima-share
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
foomatic-filters libpaps0 paps
The following packages will be REMOVED:
bluez-cups cups cups-filters hplip imagemagick indicator-printers printer-driver-gutenprint printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-postscript-hp
printer-driver-pxljr printer-driver-splix wxmaxima
The following NEW packages will be installed:
foomatic-filters libpaps0 paps
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 12 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 111 kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.2 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

Why it want to uninstall cups and wxmaxima? I thought imagemagick is simple graphics editor but it has strange dependencies. Can I remove imagemagick without removing wxmaxima, cups, etc.?

Please use sudo env LC_ALL=C apt remove imagemagick so we can get English output. — muru, Oct 21 '16 at 01:34

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 21 '16 at 02:51

Before removing it,you should know that you will also remove cups (which is parts of the printing system).

cups uses imagemagick for its filters and while it's possible that you don't use any filters that use ImageMagick, I'd recommend that you keep it.

So it's bad idea to remove imagemagick, because removing it may break your printing system.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 17 '19 at 16:42

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cups depends on cups-filters and cups-filters depends on imagemagick. The only way you can remove imagemagick is if you install graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat (which will involve installing graphicsmagick). wxmaxima also depends on imagemagick. You can try: How to fake a package version installed?, though who knows what might break if you do that.

edited Sep 17 '19 at 16:42

Pang

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answered Oct 21 '16 at 01:53

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 29 '23 at 15:35

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This works for me:

sudo su
apt autoremove --purge imagemagick
apt autoremove --purge imagemagick-6.q16
apt autoremove --purge imagemagick-6-common

edited Nov 29 '23 at 15:35

sotirov

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answered Nov 29 '23 at 14:57

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This answer appears to be far less useful than the previous ones that actually addressed the risks involved in taking this course of action. – Elder Geek Dec 06 '23 at 18:40

Cannot uninstall imagemagick

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