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[Q] Removing/deep cleanup of installed package doesn't work as expected. (remove, purge, autoremove) (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by deepdive to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone :)

After installing the emacs package and trying to remove it afterwards:

sudo apt remove --purge --autoremove emacs

It only removed that package and not the other dependencies installed with it (emacs-gtk, emacs-common...). I had to manually remove them one-by-one.

Isn't that command supposed:

remove package
it's configuration files
remove unused packages automatically installed ?

What am I missing here?

Also after reading the Stupid things you've done that broke your Linux installation post, I read a lot of people messing up their debian system after using the above command... So I assume that's not the correct way of doing things in Linux?

Some insight from experienced user would be great :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If something else depends on it then it shouldn’t be removed, it’s only removing things that are not used elsewhere.

Usually just reading through the packages it’s listing and double check what it’s doing is enough. If something is removing a ton of gnome and you’re not trying to remove gnome, that would be an issue. If something is trying to remove the kernel (unless it’s an old kernel) or grub that’s also worth digging into. I’ve never run into problems with it, I don’t think it’s common these days.