> On Friday 16 September 2011 20:39:01 Timothy Pearson wrote: >> > Le 16/09/2011 19:32, Timothy Pearson a écrit : >> >>> The objective was to install Firefox 5.0. >> >>> 1 - I copied a directory /usr/local/firefox/ from a system used >> >>> before >> >>> 2 - I tried to edit a firefox icon coming also from the other >> >>> system, >> >>> 3 - I completely uninstalled firefox using Synaptic (that did not >> >>> removed the ~/.mozilla/). >> >> >> >> When you deinstalled Firefox I think you took >> >> kubuntu-default-settings-trinity with it. Check to make sure that it >> is >> >> still installed. >> >> >> >> Tim >> > >> > Hi Tim, >> > >> > Indeed, the package "kubuntu-default-settings-trinity" was >> automatically >> > added. Simply reinstalling the package should be enough to restore my >> > system, if I have this trouble again? >> >> I would think so. Without that package, the system reverts to a very >> old >> set of defaults that don't work the way most people would expect. >> >> Tim > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hello all, > > I did not succed uninstalling neither Firefox nor Thunderbird, while > keeping the "redmond-default-settings-kde3" package, with the graphic > tools > Synaptic, Adept and Kpackage. :-/ :-/ > > Sincerely, > Patrick > That is because redmond-default-settings-kde3 depends on both of those tools. It is an unadvertised (internal) convenience package used to create the Enterprise Edition LiveDVD for Ubuntu. I suppose if there is interest in that package I could look into moving some dependencies into the recommends field instead, but I would need a list of applications that should be moved there. Tim