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

Adam Petty linux at papettys.com
Wed Dec 16 14:56:45 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> 2009/12/16 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
>
>> No, that just removes configuration files etc.
>>
>
> sudo apt-get autoremove <packagename>
>
> From the man page:-
>
>       autoremove
>           autoremove is used to remove packages that were
> automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for some package and
> that are no more needed.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>


Doesn't Computer Janitor do something like that as well




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