[Ubuntu-BD] Difference between remove and autoremove?

[~Split_Fire~]

Hi Shahriar Vai,

Hope it wouldn't seem that much awkard replying your mail now. I just
figured out  when I issued 'sudo apt-get --purge remove <package-name>' it
freed few MBs and the when I again repeated the process with "sudo apt-get
autoremove <package-name>", it again freed few more extra MBs. My mistake, I
should copied my original command here. What is the basic difference between
these two? Well I am googling it, but, so far I know 'autoremove' also
automatically removes the dependent packages.

Thanks.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Shahriar Tariq <shahriar at linux.org.bd>wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:41 PM, ~Split_Fire~ <raptor167 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I didn't even install compiz, for my RAM is only 512 MB. I didn't want to
> > go
> > with compiz or any other heavy graphics stuffs. To ensure it further, I
> > tried to remove compiz if I already have it installed somehow, and got
> the
> > response as follows:
> >
> > $ sudo apt-get autoremove compiz
> > [sudo] password for raze:
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Package compiz is not installed, so not removed
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
> >
> > Just dropping a line to make things clear...
>
> Synaptic package manaer, software center all works on same tool. "apt-get"
>
> you gave wrong command.. you should have tried with
>
> sudo apt-get remove compiz-config
>
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