Is there a way to remove 'shipped' apps?

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Hi,

try removing shipped apps is forbitten in my nextcloud 29.0.4. Is there a force option or a config.php setting to modify this?

Thanks!

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Can you give an example and post the corresponding error?

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Of course…

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I have tested it on my test system. I can disable but not uninstall it. I think Nextcloud does not work without the app Photos. If you do not need the app you can disable it. This is of course a pity, as the app requires around 50 MB in total. But of course it could be that apps like Nextcloud Files access it. Maybe someone knows more.

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Thank you, seems so.

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You cannot remove shipped apps because it would be impossible to re-install them. Most of them can be disabled though: server/core/shipped.json at master · nextcloud/server · GitHub

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On my test system i have deleted “photos” from shippedApps in shipped.json. Then i can delete the app Photos and Nextcloud works. The app is gone but i can see pictures in Nextcloud Files.

I advise against this approach. Nevertheless, it would be interesting to see how important the dependency really is.

Another disadvantage is that I can’t reinstall the app because it doesn’t appear in the app list, find-function, etc.