Re: question about a .deb file

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 12/9/2021 8:55 AM, Tim Woodall wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2021, john doe wrote:
>
> > On 12/8/2021 10:16 AM, Piper H wrote:
> > > Thanks, I'll check them out. :)
> >
> > My suggestion would be to do the following commands:
> > $ apt-get --autoremove purge mysql-connector-java
>
> Does that work or is it a typo? I've always used:
>
> apt-get autoremove --purge

$ apt-get autoremove --purge
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
[snip]
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 31 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1018 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
$ apt-get purge --autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
[snip]
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 31 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1018 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] ^C
$ apt-get --autoremove purge
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
[snip]
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 31 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1018 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
$ apt-get --help
apt 2.3.13 (amd64)
Usage: apt-get [options] command
       apt-get [options] install|remove pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
       apt-get [options] source pkg1 [pkg2 ...]
[snip]


Specifying options before the command looks to be more man page compliant...

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John Doe