ruckusrogue wrote: > Anyone know the proper tool (shell) to best remove (purge) packages > and their dependencies after installing?
Yes. Autoremove. > For instance on a wheezy install when I added 'eog' (eye of > gnome) it added 15 other dependency packages. Then removing ego only > removed eog, literally. The dependencies remained. Is that the proper > behavior these days? It didn't used to be. > > same result using: > apt-get --purge autoremove eog > apt-get --purge remove eog > aptitude purge eog After removing eog run autoremove --purge. # apt-get autoremove --purge It will only offer packages that are marked as automatically installed. See the man page for apt-mark to for listing packages and changing the package status from manual to auto and back. man apt-mark Bob
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