> 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
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>       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