Re: Uninstalling a package and its entourage

2024-05-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-05-27 18:42:48 +0300, mindaugascelies...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, May 27, 2024 5:59:55 PM EEST Nicolas George wrote: > > Eben King (12024-05-27): > > > Is there an easier way to uninstall a package and everything it brought in > > > at one swell foop? Thanks. > > > > The packages you

Re: Uninstalling a package and its entourage

2024-05-27 Thread Mike Castle
Even shorter: apt autopurge Apropos to my recent message regarding system configuration, I keep a personal metapackage around that lists the packages I really want. About once a quarter I do the following (as root): # apt-mark showmanual | grep -v mrc-mars | xargs apt-mark auto # apt autopurge

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: Uninstalling a package and its entourage

2024-05-27 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 27. Mai 2024, 17:51:23 CEST schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: > On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 04:59:55PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > Eben King (12024-05-27): > > > Is there an easier way to uninstall a package and everything it brought > > > in > > > at one swell foop? Thanks. > > > > The packa

Re: Uninstalling a package and its entourage

2024-05-27 Thread tomas
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 04:59:55PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Eben King (12024-05-27): > > Is there an easier way to uninstall a package and everything it brought in > > at one swell foop? Thanks. > > The packages you did not choose to install but were installed as a > consequence are shown b

Re: Uninstalling a package and its entourage

2024-05-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 27 May 2024 10:57:54 -0400 Eben King wrote: Hello Eben, >Is there an easier way to uninstall a package and everything it brought >in at one swell foop? Thanks. apt/apt-get autoremove or apt/apt-get autoremove --purge The first removes the packages installed as dependencies, the secon

Re: Uninstalling a package and its entourage

2024-05-27 Thread mindaugasceliesius
On Monday, May 27, 2024 5:59:55 PM EEST Nicolas George wrote: > Eben King (12024-05-27): > > Is there an easier way to uninstall a package and everything it brought in > > at one swell foop? Thanks. > > The packages you did not choose to install but were installed as a > consequence are shown by

Re: Uninstalling a package and its entourage

2024-05-27 Thread Nicolas George
Eben King (12024-05-27): > Is there an easier way to uninstall a package and everything it brought in > at one swell foop? Thanks. The packages you did not choose to install but were installed as a consequence are shown by apt-get when you do almost anything: The following packages were automati

Uninstalling a package and its entourage

2024-05-27 Thread Eben King
Hey. Occasionally I'll install a package and it brings some other dependencies with it. Fine. Then if I decide it doesn't work for me and want to uninstall it, I have to go to the installation history, see what was installed with it, and for each one find it and flag it for removal. You can se