Deinstall package *INCLUDING* all dependencies

Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name
Sat Jul 8 17:34:56 UTC 2006


Hi!

I just installed mplayer on Dapper. Synaptic told me, that some
additional packages need to be installed to satisfy the dependencies.
Thus, I installed those as well; packages like liblame0, libungif4g
and some more, which I forgot.

And the "forgot" is the reason why I'm asking now :) I'd like to
deinstall mplayer *including* all the depencies which were installed
to meet those requirements.

How would I do this?

On Gentoo, I'd (more or less) do it that way, that I'd now do a
"emerge --depclean --pretend" and record the result. "--depclean"
shows those packages, which were "once upon a time" installed as
a dependency of some other package but are no longer required by
any installed package. Well... After I run the "emerge --depclean
--pretend", I'd deinstall mplayer and run "emerge --depclean
--pretend" once more. Any new package must've been installed to
satisfy dependencies of mplayer.

Surely I can do something like that with Debian (Ubuntu) as well,
can't I? How?

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar
-- 
Im Endeffekt war alles cooler als letztes Jahr, obwohl
ich bis Donnerstag dachte, das es nicht geht.
		-- Igor Gilitschenski




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