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

Jamal Uddin Khan ml.jamal919 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 18 11:26:26 UTC 2010


Adam Petty wrote:
> 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
>
>   
I think BleachBit is a good tool to do it graphically .. you can get it 
here .. http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/




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