How do I completely remove Evolution?

Question

The looping of Evolution factories slow the system to sudden and lengthy halts. When I access the System Monitor I can stop the individual processes that cause the problem. These processes are as follows;

evolution-source-registry

notably, evolution-addressbook-factory

Once evolution-addressbook-factory is stopped the processes are eventually replaced by similarly named processes, but the looping stops. When I connect to Thunderbird it slows substantially. Initially I used evolution mail when running Ubuntu 12.10 but removed it and have been using Thunderbird.

My laptop specs are:
Ubuntu 13.04 32-bit
2.0 GHz (dual core, both cores at 2.0 GHz)
1GB RAM After carrying out the recommended procedures for complete removal I recieved a cache read error after removing evolution from the package manager entirely. Re-downloading the packages in the package manager enabled email recognition and produced the error seen in the screenshot.

Answer 1

To remove Evolution, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo apt-get --purge remove evolution evolution-exchange evolution-plugins evolution-common evolution-webcal

The above command will not remove evolution-data-server, evolution-data-server-common

I would recommend that you use Synaptic Package Manager to completely remove Evolution. Just search for it, and mark it for complete removal.

Also just to be sure, after removing do:

sudo rm /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/evolution

Now keep in mind that removing evolution, will also remove gnome panel. to install just do:

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel

Answer 2

Removing is messy, but disabling is relatively straightforward.

Of course this should be done using dpkg divert and whatever, to not confuse apt/dpkg when you upgrade your system.

cd /usr/share/dbus-1/services
sudo ln -snf /dev/null  org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.AddressBook.service  
sudo ln -snf /dev/null  org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Calendar.service 
sudo ln -snf /dev/null  org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Sources.service 
sudo ln -snf /dev/null  org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.UserPrompter.service 

Answer 3

None of the above helped me, as e-addressbook-factory was continuing to run and take 99% of CPU even after the purge command. The executable lives in /usr/lib/evolution:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10544 Jul 30  2013 camel-index-control-1.2
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 14664 Jul 30  2013 camel-lock-helper-1.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27760 Jul 30  2013 e-addressbook-factory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31984 Jul 30  2013 e-calendar-factory

As a last resort I moved the folder out of the way with this:

sudo mv /usr/lib/evolution /usr/lib/evolution-fu

And now it has stopped running.

Answer 4

apt-get has a --purge option to completly remove a package.

In a terminal :

sudo apt-get remove --purge evolution
sudo apt-get autoclean

The autoclean option will make a clean in the package stocked on your system. So if you have multiple versions of a package apt-get will only keep the last one.