When I delete anything that was originally installed during the installation process, because of the “autoinstall” status, they will be re-installed using the Software Management tool when I press Accept.
Is there a way not have these files re-installed after you’ve removed them?
Thank you.
Open Software Management, search for the “suggested package” you do not want installed, right-click on it and click “taboo - do not install”.
Thank you! That worked!!
I ran into this problem I tabooed these apps. I fail to understand why we would have to do that in the first place.
That package might be part of the update or it is part of the “recommended” packages. which you can configure in the file
/etc/zypp/zypp.conf
If memory serves me right, but on your own risk because it might break some dependencies and break your system eventually.
That being said zypper can do the lock of packages. See
zypper help al
for more info.
I should not have to taboo libreoffice or kmines etc. to keep them from being reinstalled. This is a bug not a feature.
Screenshot of these apps after un-tabooing them here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gcf3y68cjtp77ha/thos132appbug.png?dl=0
I already said what might be the cause but feel it is a bug feel free to file a bug report if you think that this is a bug.
Enabling “Ignore recommended packages for already installed packages” in YaST’s “Options” menu should also prevent recommended software from being installed over and over again, and should be safe.
In my experience, even tabooing unwanted applications failed to prevent their being re-installed. After marking them taboo, next time I installed or uninstalled software, they’d come back from the dead, once again on the list of “dependencies” and marked for installation, even though a manual dependency check showed nothing of the kind. I’d have to got through the list and again un-mark every app. This was so infuriating, I came very close to ditching the entire distro. I’ll try modifying the zypp.conf file and see if that effects a permanent solution.
If this happens, there must be a bug somewhere.
I haven’t ever seen anything like that here though.
I have read reports suggesting that PackageKit is removing the locks, but never experienced this myself.
Did you click on Accept after tabooing the packages? If you just close the window, your changes do not get saved.
And again, enabling “Ignore recommended packages for already installed packages” in YaST’s “Options” menu should also prevent recommended software from being installed again even without locking/tabooing them. This won’t prevent recommended packages being installed for newly selected packages though.
