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Re: Trying to uninstall xfce4



On 12/9/2019 9:06 AM, Reco wrote:
> 	Hi.
>
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 09:55:22AM +0200, aprekates wrote:
>> In a fresh debian10 installation with xfce4 when i try:
>>
>>   $ sudo apt-get remove xfce4
>>
>> will present me with a maybe a hundred of packages that 'were automatically installed and no longer needed' and that i should remove if i want with 'apt
>> autoremove'. And the only packages that would be removed are xfce4 and task-xfce-desktop.
>>
>> In my eyes i'd be more logical apt to remove the depedencies xfce4 have. I cant understand the logic of the message presented to me.
>
> apt cannot help you if you're using it wrong. In your case it's:
>
> sudo apt-get autoremove xfce4
>
> Also, apt-get(8).
>

If you want to purge along with autoremoving:

$ apt-get --autoremove purge xfce4

--
John Doe


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