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remove unwanted packaged for ubuntu

Asked by macice

Hi,

Does anyone know of a utility, which allows me to remove any and all packages, which are not actually being used by my Feisty installation (packages which I have used in the past but have uninstalled and so are no longer needed)?

I basically I want to flush my system of all junk and to recover hard disk space.

Cheers,

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Mathias Uebelacker (muebelacker) said : 		#1

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Hello,

there are two ways:

you can mark the package in synaptic (mark to complete remove) or you
can use Administration ->remove orphaned packages and last but not least
 in a terminal dpkg -r packagename (this will not deinstall the
configuration files)

br
Mathias
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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#2

You can also clean your apt cache with these commands:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

To completely remove a package you can also use:

sudo apt-get remove --purge <package_name>

Where <package_name> shall be substituted by the package you want to remove.

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