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Billal Begueradj
Asked: 2018-05-23 09:22:23 +0800 CST

Disk space required for installation is larger than the one freed after removal: why? [duplicate]

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I installed OBS Studio:

sudo apt-get install obs-studio 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 libkeybinder-3.0-0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libfdk-aac0 libluajit-5.1-2 libluajit-5.1-common libxcb-xinerama0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libfdk-aac0 libluajit-5.1-2 libluajit-5.1-common libxcb-xinerama0 obs-studio
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,678 kB of archives.
After this operation, 13.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

I decided to remove it:

sudo apt-get --purge remove obs-studio Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 libfdk-aac0 libkeybinder-3.0-0 libluajit-5.1-2
  libluajit-5.1-common libxcb-xinerama0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  obs-studio*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 11.6 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

When removing it, I expect 13.0 MB of disk space to be freed because that is what the installation required, but I got 11.6 MB disk space freed instead: Why?

disk obs-studio

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The difference can be found here:

    The following additional packages will be installed:
  libfdk-aac0 libluajit-5.1-2 libluajit-5.1-common libxcb-xinerama0

    After you uninstall obs-studio, these packages should be available to remove using apt-get autoremove if no other packages depend on them.

    You could also run:

    sudo apt-get remove --purge obs-studio libfdk-aac0 libluajit-5.1-2 libluajit-5.1-common libxcb-xinerama0

    and you should get the original size directly.

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  2. Because not everything gets removed. Notice that the package requires couple libraries installed among which libluajit-5.1-2. During uninstallation only the package itself is removed, and you’re prompted to use autoremove to get rid of unused other packages. Re-read the uninstallation prompt again. Config files also may not get removed. For full removal sometimes --purge option is advised.

    As for why that's done so, I can only guess it's a protective feature, as various software relies on libraries and APIs, so promoting system admin to remove them manually is a sanity check that it's exactly what they want. Or in other words, avoiding breaking things just in case.

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