Comments on: How to completely remove an application with apt, aptitude, Synaptic

By: tetris4

tetris4 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:22:09 +0000

Since am an Arch user now, this is what I type in the terminal to achieve this:

sudo pacman -Rns nameofthepackage

which will “Remove the specified package(s), its configuration(s) and unneeded dependencies”

By: Hal

Hal — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:48:57 +0000

After removing a package with synaptic, i just launch “sudo gtkorphan” to get rid of the useless dependencies, gtkorphan has a nice user friendly interface .. I recommend it

By: Azerrthoth

Azerrthoth — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:59:01 +0000

arrg, your blog is removing doubled – signs

By: Azerrthoth

Azerrthoth — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:58:16 +0000

oops last should have been

#emerge –depclean

By: Azerrthoth

Azerrthoth — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:57:34 +0000

Gentoo:

# emerge -C $package
– This removes the package

# emerge -uDNatv world
– This ensures all your packages and dependancies are up to date, equiv to apt-get upgrade

# emerge –depclean
– This removes any unused dependencies that remain on your system

By: tetris4

tetris4 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:16:28 +0000

@ kart0ns: Thnx for the risk note. Its g00d to have that in mind.

@ emanuele: Could you suggest ways to do it on other systems? or other Package Managers? I would be obliged..

@ Magic Banana: Well, did u read the post? I actually did use aptitude =p

By: Magic Banana

Magic Banana — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:43:29 +0000

Or you can use aptitude…

By: emanuele

emanuele — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:09:20 +0000

Actually this is the way to remove sw only on a Debian-Ubuntu system

By: kart0ns

kart0ns — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:19:31 +0000

apt-get autoremove is risky if you have more than one desktop (XFCE, GNOME etc). It deinstalls both desktops. At least I got my Desktops and apps gone from all directories and so on.

By: archuser

archuser — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:50:49 +0000

“How to completely remove an application in GNU/Linux”?

Use Arch Linux and Pacman.