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Hamed
Asked: 2012-02-23 13:52:09 +0800 CST

How to remove all installed packages that depends on specific package [duplicate]

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How to remove an uninstalled package's dependencies?

when I want to install a specific package (with synaptic) that depends on some other packages, I have to install them too.

But I want to remove this specific package, I want the dependencies to be removed too.

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  1. Best Answer

    After you remove the package, any packages that were automatically installed because of their dependency can be removed like this:

    sudo apt-get autoremove

    From the man page:

    autoremove is used to remove packages that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for some package and that are no more needed.

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