Recipe 3.5. Removing Packages from a Debian System
3.5.1 Problem
You
want to remove a package, or several packages, from your Debian
system.
3.5.2 Solution
Use apt-get remove:
# apt-get remove tuxpaint
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
tuxkart
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 79 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 188kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 141283 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing tuxkart ...
#
To test the remove command first, use:
# apt-get remove tuxpaint —dry-run
To remove all traces of a package, including configuration files, use:
# apt-get —purge remove tuxpaint
To remove several packages, use a space-delimited list:
# apt-get remove tuxkart gltron frozen-bubble tuxracer nethack galaga
3.5.3 See Also
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