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Recipe 3.5. Removing Packages from a Debian System

3.5.1 Problem

You want to remove a package, or several packages, from your Debian system.

3.5.2 Solution

Use apt-get remove:

# apt-get remove tuxpaint

Reading Package Lists... Done

Building Dependency Tree... Done

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  tuxkart

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 79 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B of archives.

After unpacking 188kB disk space will be freed.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

(Reading database ... 141283 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing tuxkart ...

#

To test the remove command first, use:

# apt-get remove tuxpaint —dry-run

To remove all traces of a package, including configuration files, use:

# apt-get —purge remove tuxpaint

To remove several packages, use a space-delimited list:

# apt-get remove tuxkart gltron frozen-bubble tuxracer nethack galaga

3.5.3 See Also

  • apt-get(8)

  • Local documentation (/usr/share/doc/Debian/apt-howto)

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