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
>
> 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.

That's a good point. Why didn't I think of that…? :P

That did the trick, or at least a part of it. I also had to remove
”python-uno” and ”libreoffice-something-I-don't-remember-its-name” the
same way. Then I could remove all those 288 redundant packages with
the autoremove command. There were some error messages about missing
files or directories, but it seem to have worked.

~$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
~$

Those ”5 not upgraded”, how can I see them? What does it mean? That
they are not upgraded, but they SHOULD be?


Johnny Rosenberg


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