Remove cinnamon & nemo completely

Yesterday I installed cinnamon and nemo but didn't like it (don't ask me why).

I am using unity now and I has no reason to remove cinnamon but now when I launch nautilus from terminal, I get this error:

Initializing nautilus-dropbox 1.4.0
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare'
returned error 255: info_fn: file /var/lib/samba/usershares/files is not a
well formed usershare file.
info_fn: Error was Path is not a directory.

This is the first time I am seeing this error, and I think removing cinnamon & nemo will solve the problem (But I want to remove it anyway).

So, sudo apt-get autoremove cinnamon nemo shows that only ~7MB space will be freed, while ~70MB was downloaded. Where's the rest of space? And how do I solve that nautilus problem?

1 Answer

Cinnamon and Nemo has several dependencies that other packages that you might have installed use:

apt-cache depends cinnamon nemo
cinnamon Depends: gir1.2-clutter-1.0 Depends: gir1.2-glib-2.0 Depends: gir1.2-gmenu-3.0 Depends: gir1.2-gtk-3.0 Depends: gir1.2-muffin-3.0 Depends: gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 Depends: gir1.2-soup-2.4 Depends: libatk1.0-0 Depends: libc6 Depends: libcairo2 Depends: libcanberra0 Depends: libclutter-1.0-0 Depends: libcogl-pango12 Depends: libcogl12 Depends: libcroco3 Depends: libdbus-glib-1-2 Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 Depends: libgirepository-1.0-1 Depends: <libgjs0-libmozjs185-1.0> libgjs0c Depends: libgjs0c |Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx Depends: <libgl1> libgl1-mesa-glx Depends: libglib2.0-0 Depends: libgnome-desktop-3-4 Depends: libgnome-keyring0 Depends: libgnome-menu-3-0 Depends: libgstreamer0.10-0 Depends: libgtk-3-0 Depends: libjson-glib-1.0-0 Depends: libmozjs185-1.0 Depends: libmuffin0 Depends: libnm-glib4 Depends: libnm-util2 Depends: libpango1.0-0 Depends: libpolkit-agent-1-0 Depends: libpolkit-gobject-1-0 Depends: libpulse-mainloop-glib0 Depends: libpulse0 Depends: libstartup-notification0 Depends: libx11-6 Depends: libxfixes3 Depends: libxml2 |Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend Depends: <gsettings-backend> dconf-gsettings-backend Depends: gconf2 gconf2:i386 Depends: python Depends: cinnamon-common Depends: gnome-session-bin Depends: gjs Depends: gnome-settings-daemon Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas Depends: gnome-icon-theme-symbolic Depends: gkbd-capplet Depends: gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 Depends: gir1.2-gconf-2.0 Depends: gir1.2-gkbd-3.0 Depends: gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 Depends: gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 Depends: gir1.2-cogl-1.0 Depends: gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 Depends: gir1.2-pango-1.0 Depends: gir1.2-polkit-1.0 Depends: gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 Depends: gir1.2-caribou-1.0 Depends: gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 Depends: gir1.2-webkit-3.0 Depends: libjs-jquery Depends: python-gconf Depends: python-lxml Depends: python-dbus Depends: python-imaging Depends: python-pyinotify Depends: mesa-utils PreDepends: multiarch-support multiarch-support:i386 Recommends: gnome-control-center Breaks: gnome-control-center Breaks: gnome-control-center:i386 Conflicts: cinnamon:i386
nemo Depends: desktop-file-utils desktop-file-utils:i386 Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas Depends: gvfs Depends: libglib2.0-data Depends: nemo-data Depends: shared-mime-info shared-mime-info:i386 Depends: libatk1.0-0 Depends: libc6 Depends: libcairo-gobject2 Depends: libcairo2 Depends: libexempi3 Depends: libexif12 Depends: libgail-3-0 Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 Depends: libglib2.0-0 Depends: libgnome-desktop-3-4 Depends: libgtk-3-0 Depends: libnemo-extension1 Depends: libnotify4 Depends: libpango1.0-0 Depends: libx11-6 Depends: libxml2 Suggests: eog |Suggests: evince Suggests: <pdf-viewer> acroread-bin:i386 okular epdfview evince evince-gtk gv viewpdf.app xpdf zathura |Suggests: totem Suggests: <mp3-decoder> mpg123 mpg321 opencubicplayer vlc vlc-nox Suggests: xdg-user-dirs Recommends: eject eject:i386 Recommends: gvfs-backends gvfs-backends:i386 Recommends: librsvg2-common Recommends: <nemo-fileroller> Conflicts: nemo:i386

So to remove them you must remove them one by one checking that no other packages has explicit dependency of them. Non explicit dependencies are Recomends and Suggests.

About the error it might be that you (or Cinnamon/Nemo) have shared a directory that it couldn't share and now you are seeing this "error". The solution is find what directory is this renaming it or just drop the sharing as stated here.