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Clonkex
Asked: 2020-03-12 16:35:14 +0800 CST

ImageMagick still exists after apt remove?

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I installed ImageMagick via apt install imagemagick but then realised I need a newer version, so I compiled it from source and installed over the top of the old version. mogrify -version still showed the old version so I decided to remove everything and start again from scratch with apt remove imagemagick. However even after this I can still run imagemagick; i.e. it's not removed.

How can I remove it properly?

(And why did this happen in the first place? Why does apt remove not work?)

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  1. Best Answer

    The imagemagick package is a dummy package. From apt show imagemagick

     .
 This package include links to channel depth specific binaries and manual
 pages.
 .
 This is a dummy package.  You can safely purge or remove it.

    The "channel depth specific binaries and manual pages" are provided by the package's dependency - you can check what that is using apt depends - for example:

    $ apt depends imagemagick
imagemagick
  Depends: imagemagick-6.q16 (>= 8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-2~)
    imagemagick-6.q16:i386

    (the q16 here refers to the the channel depth). If you installed imagemagick via apt (or apt-get) this will be the package that you need to remove.

    If you installed the software by building it from source code, then please refer to

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