How to remove all the bits of a package installed by mistake?

[Matt Harrison]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:31:55AM -0500, Kim Briggs wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> > So, it's easy enough to remove Davical and Davical-doc using Synaptic
>> > (or apt-get) but how can I easily remove all the dependencies that
>> > were installed at the same time and are now no longer needed?
>> >
>> ...
>>
>> "Mark for Complete Removal"?
>>
>> I thinkt that what the Complete Removal choice in Synaptic was for.
>>
> No, that just removes configuration files etc.
>
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If the dependencies were only for the program you installed and
removed, you could try out a program called deborphan.  I looks for
install packages that aren't tied to any program.   I don't know if it
will get them all, but it should remove quite a few of them.