How to uninstall things installed with dpkg?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2013/5/19 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:
> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> 2013/5/19 Bill Dengler(arch Gnu/Linux) <billkd2008 at gmail.com>:
>> > Or dpkg -r packagename
>>
>> That one gave me some errors, but I could uninstall Apache OpenOffice
>> and LibreOffice now, at least.
>>
>> Something is still wrong though (translated to English with Google
>> Translate): ~ $ sudo apt-get autoremove
>
> You could avoid deficiencies of google translation if you start your
> command with "LCALL=C" like this:
>
> LCALL=C sudo apt-get autoremove

~$ LCALL=C sudo apt-get autoremove
[sudo] password for guraknugen:
Läser paketlistor... Färdig
Bygger beroendeträd
Läser tillståndsinformation... Färdig
Du bör köra "apt-get -f install" för att korrigera dessa.
Följande paket har beroenden som inte kan tillfredsställas:
 libreoffice-core : Beroende av: libreoffice-common (> 1:3.5.7) men
det är inte installerat
E: Otillfredsställda beroenden. Prova med -f.
~$

Seems like still being in Swedish…

>
> Then the output is in English even if your standard language is Swedish.
>
>> Reading package lists ... Finished
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information ... Finished
>> You should run "apt-get-f install" to correct these.
>> The following packages have dependencies that can not be satisfied:
>>   libreoffice-core: Depends: libreoffice-common (> 1:3.5.7) but it is
>> not installed
>> E: Unmet dependencies. Try with -f.
>> ~$ sudo apt-get -f install
>
> As I understand it, you wanted to remove libreoffice. Then I would have
> tried
>
> sudo dpkg -r libreoffice-core
>
> instead of installing unwanted things.

Well, I wanted to remove it since something else installed it
(kde-full, I think) to my big surprise…

Thanks for your reply.


Johnny Rosenberg


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