Deinstall package *INCLUDING* all dependencies

[Gabriel M Dragffy]

Synaptic or apt-get won't do this. BUT if you install mplayer with
aptitude then aptitude would remove the dependencies that were installed
with it. This is because aptitude removes automatically selected
software that depends on manually selected software which is being
removed. This is not true for synaptic. Which I find a it annoying, I
often browse and search sofware using the GUI but then resort to CLI and
aptitude in install/remove.

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 19:34 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:

> 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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