Author Topic: [solved] apt-get autoremove?  (Read 1815 times)

acurrie

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[solved] apt-get autoremove?
« on: August 21, 2010, 11:32:58 AM »
This command doesn't seem to work in my ZenMini terminal (running as root). I thought it might be using apt-rpm instead of apt-get, but it doesn't look like it.

Is there some other/better command to get rid of cruft from previous install/uninstalls?

Thanks in advance...
« Last Edit: August 24, 2010, 08:14:42 AM by acurrie »

Offline Neal ManBear

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Re: apt-get autoremove?
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2010, 02:49:33 PM »
PClinuxOS uses apt4rpm.

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Re: apt-get autoremove?
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2010, 03:17:07 PM »
apt-get -D remove


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acurrie

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Re: apt-get autoremove?
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2010, 03:51:30 PM »
PClinuxOS uses apt4rpm.

Oh, ok. I got confused when I could only pull up the man pages for apt-get...

Would there be an apt4rpm equivalent to autoremove? The stuff in question is some Qt libraries that were installed with VLC, but not removed when I dumped it.

Thanks for setting me straight!  :)

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Re: apt-get autoremove?
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2010, 04:07:09 PM »
See Texstar's reply.

uncleV

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Re: apt-get autoremove?
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2010, 08:12:20 PM »
BleachBit (in Sybnaptic)?

acurrie

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Re: apt-get autoremove?
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2010, 07:48:29 AM »
See Texstar's reply.

But I would have to invoke that command while uninstalling -- not after the fact, right?

I guess I could also go back into Synaptic and check which packages are installed with VLC, then nuke each each one.

I'll look into BleachBit too... thanks again.