Re: question about a .deb file
On Fri 10 Dec 2021 at 05:49:06 (+0100), john doe wrote:
> 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...
… and the man page also shows that purge and autoremove
happen to be both commands and options (as is reinstall).
Cheers,
David.
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