Re: apt-get remove (including dependancies)

To: Ram Kumar DANGETI <ramkumar.dangeti@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: apt-get remove (including dependancies)
From: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:43:40 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 20050819174339.GA27956@on.debian.linux.org.pl>
Mail-followup-to: Ram Kumar DANGETI <ramkumar.dangeti@gmail.com>, debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 95785a3d0508191023161a900d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <[🔎] 95785a3d0508191023161a900d@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 07:23:08PM +0200, Ram Kumar DANGETI wrote:
>          Is there a way to remove a package and all its dependencies ? with
>    "apt-get remove" we can remove the base package, but I just want to know
>    how we can remove the base package as well as all the dependencies which
>    where installed along with this base package.

Start using aptitude instead of apt. It can remember what dependencies came
with package.

And please ask such questions on debian-user mailing list. That's not
proper place for them.

regards
fEnIo

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