How to uninstall things installed with dpkg?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2013/5/20 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:
> pete smout wrote:
>> On 19/05/13 22:54, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> > ~$ 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?
>>
>> I had this once on Lucid, got round it using synaptic marking all
>> upgrades, then you can review them after clicking apply! (just to make
>> sure your not upgrading what youve spent hours trying to remove!)
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> IMHO synaptic is the better choice, but if you really prefer the command
> line, you could use

Well, I don't know if ”prefer” is the right word. I don't have
Synaptic installed at the moment (I know it's very easy to do so,
though), and I just thought that it would be easy enough to use the
command line, which is always there anyway. And besides getting things
done, I also like learning things, and I think I learned some things
from this thread.  :)

>
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> and it should upgrade those 5 packages as well.

Yes, I think it did it for me. Thanks!



Johnny Rosenberg
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