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sps
Asked: 2015-04-03 21:31:06 +0800 CST

how to uninstall emacs from command line?

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I have ubuntu 12.04

I installed emacs using below commands.

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install emacs

Then, as expected, I could find emacs while searching in dash.

Next I wanted to uninstall emacs, so I did:

$ apt-get remove emacs

But still I can search emacs in dash. Also I am able to open emacs and use it.

However when I check below command.

sps@sps-Inspiron-N5110:~$ dpkg --status emacs
Package `emacs' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
sps@sps-Inspiron-N5110:~$

It says emacs not installed. But how am I able to use emacs?

To correctly ask , "How to uninstall it ?"

I mean how do I get everything erased. I dont want any of these - source code (if any), or binary executable, or anything related to emacs - in my system, which was added when I did apt-get install emacs.

Thanks.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    emacs is actually a virtual package, provided by emacs23-lucid or emacs23-nox. It's these that should be removed:

    sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove emacs23-lucid emacs23-nox

    The --auto-remove removes any packages which were installed to fill a dependency, but are no longer needed. In this case, it will remove packages like emacs23-bin-common.

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