Good day for all forum members!
I tried to completely remove geoclue from Debian Buster. In /var/lib/dpkg/status i remove libgeoclue, gir1.2- geoclue, geoclue from all dependences. Then purge all packages. It killed my system. Is there a way to completely remove this service from Debian and save my system?
Yours sincerely, Olga
Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you in advance!

Hi,

I don't see why uninstalling that package would impact your system in any catastrophic way. What exactly do you mean by
What problems are you experiencing?

Evo2.

Evo2, thank you for answer!
I deleted geoclue-2.0, gir1.2-geoclue and system worked in normal way.
But after removing libgeoclue package (apt purge libgeoclue-2-0):

libgeoclue-2.so.0 (link to x/application sharedlib)
libgeoclue-2.so.0.0.0 (link to x/application sharedlib)
Geoclue-2.0 typelib

i got a black screen with blinking cursor in the left top corner during reboot.

I don't understand what the reason, because there wasn't any errors during removing libgeoclue package.
I think maybe it happen because i removed link to shared object, not the real object or it can be Gnome bug.

How i can understand the reason why libgeoclue package causing this bug?

Thank you for any advice! I spent much time learning Debian and would like to save this distro.

Try to boot in single user mode. The issue is probably not "real", rather probably created by systemd creating some dependency it does not really need.

If you get grub, then simply type 1 behind your boot parameters. Should work. Next if it boots you probably need to check the logs etc of the previous boot failure.

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Try to boot in single user mode. The issue is probably not "real", rather probably created by systemd creating some dependency it does not really need.

If you get grub, then simply type 1 behind your boot parameters. Should work. Next if it boots you probably need to check the logs etc of the previous boot failure.

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how did you "remove" geoclue?
did you use apt or apt-get for this?
something like:
or how exactly?

I want to thank all forum members, who posted replies, especially zeebra

You was right, it's not a real bug. The reason was Gnome dependencies. I made clean install of Debian without standart system utiles and choose XFCE instead of Gnome. After that i deleted geoip package and now i don't see any geoclue files. My system now has less files and looks clean and fast.

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I used purge

So removing GNOME solved the problem?
How did you remove that?
Please share your solution, then mark your thread SOLVED.

I understood, that there is no way to complitelly delete geoclue in Gnome because of dependencies. I removed geoclue package but couldn't remove libgeoclue and Geoclue.typelib (it caused Gnome crash). So i decided to make fresh install with XFCE (without print server and standart system utilities) and removed geoip package. But i am not 100% shure that there is no some D-bus services with similar functionality

hope, problem solved

That's a very unecessary and ugly dependency and good enough reason to drop Gnome alltogether if it forces the whole desktop to depend on such a service/program. In KDE there are some packages that are nice to remove, but it is more modular, so only in an example, a few programs of KDE depend on it and will break, not the whole desktop. KDE is also not perfect and does have some annoying dependencies that breaks the whole desktop. Lighter desktops does not have this issue normally.

^ yes I looked at this yesterday and realised that it's much more than just a database of IP-country pairs (have a look at 'man geoclue'). Uninstalled now, thankfully nothing on my machine depends on it (even though I'm using some gnome components).