The first step,apt-get remove xxx , is to uninstall XXX apt-get remove--purge xxx , uninstall XXX and clear the configuration. These two commands are no matter what the dependencies are. Because other software may have the same dependence on the software, of course, the dependency can not be managed. The second step,apt-get autoremove , is to deal with packages that are no longer "dependent", automatically detect and delete them (this command can be executed at any time). Autoremove:is used to remove packages, were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for some package a nd that is no more needed.[Note]: This command does not take any parameters. There is another command apt-get autoremove xxx ; The software name is added. After testing this command and apt-get remove xxx, more than
A lot of uninstall content,apt-get autoremove xxx may be the first step and the second step of the comprehensive wording of the command, but not sure. Use caution and may cause other software to be unavailable!
attached to the actual operation command
[Email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get remove amule
Reading Package List ... Complete
Analyzing Dependency tree for Package
Reading status information ... Complete
The following packages are installed automatically and are not needed now:
libwxbase2.8-0 libcrypto++9 Amule-common amule-utils libwxgtk2.8-0 libupnp3
Use ' Apt-get autoremove ' to uninstall them
The following packages will be "uninstalled":
Amule
0 packages were upgraded, 0 new packages were installed, 1 packages were uninstalled, 36 packages were not upgraded.
4,499 KB of space will be vacated after decompression.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]n
Abort execution.
[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge amule
Reading Package List ... Complete
Analyzing Dependency tree for Package
Reading status information ... Complete
The following packages are installed automatically and are not needed now:
libwxbase2.8-0 libcrypto++9 Amule-common amule-utils libwxgtk2.8-0 libupnp3
Use ' Apt-get autoremove ' to uninstall them
The following packages will be "uninstalled":
amule*
0 packages were upgraded, 0 new packages were installed, 1 packages were uninstalled, 36 packages were not upgraded.
will be vacated after decompression
4,499 KB of space.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]n
Abort execution.
[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove amule
Reading Package List ... Complete
Analyzing Dependency tree for Package
Reading status information ... Complete
The following packages will be "uninstalled":
Amule Amule-common amule-utils libcrypto++9 libupnp3 libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0
0 packages were upgraded, 0 new packages were installed, 7 packages were uninstalled, 36 packages were not upgraded.
will be vacated after decompression
28.0 MBof space.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]n
Abort execution.
really uninstall[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get remove--purge amule
Reading Package List ... Complete
Analyzing Dependency tree for Package
Reading status information ... Complete
The following packages are installed automatically and are not needed now:
libwxbase2.8-0 libcrypto++9 Amule-common amule-utils libwxgtk2.8-0 libupnp3
Use ' Apt-get autoremove ' to uninstall them
The following packages will be "uninstalled":
amule*
0 packages were upgraded, 0 new packages were installed, 1 packages were uninstalled, 36 packages were not upgraded.
4,499 KB of space will be vacated after decompression.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]y
(Reading Database ... The system currently has a total of 196,178 files and directories installed. )
Uninstalling Amule ...
Purging Amule configuration files ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for Bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding/usr/share/applications/bamf.index ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for Gnome-menus ...
[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading Package List ... Complete
Analyzing Dependency tree for Package
Reading status information ... Complete
The following packages will be "uninstalled":
Amule-common amule-utils libcrypto++9 libupnp3 libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0
0 packages were upgraded, 0 new packages were installed, 6 packages were uninstalled, 36 packages were not upgraded.
23.5 MB of space will be vacated after decompression.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]y
(Reading Database ... The system currently has a total of 196,159 files and directories installed. )
Uninstalling Amule-common ...
Uninstalling Amule-utils ...
Uninstalling libcrypto++9 ...
Uninstalling LIBUPNP3 ...
Uninstalling libwxgtk2.8-0 ...
Uninstalling libwxbase2.8-0 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
Ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Ubuntu Delete Software command
