Re: purge --autoremove

[didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com>]

Le 07/08/2025 à 04:55, Geoff a écrit :
> Geoff wrote:
> > Alex Wahl wrote:
> > > Just double checking my syntax, is the way to get rid of all removed 
> > > packages with remnant config apt purge --autoremove?
> >
> > apt autoremove --purge
>
> Oh, now I'm confused, both syntaxes do something, and it's not clear to 
> me what the difference is.

Hello,

If I am not wrong,

apt purge --autoremove $SOMEPACKAGE
 will purge SOMEPACKAGE package and automatically remove its 
dependencies that are not needed anymore. But leaving intacts the 
configuration files of these dependencies

while

apt autoremove --purge
 or
apt autopurge
 will purge (including configuration files) all unnecessary packages 
(packages marked as installed automatically as dependencies of a package 
that is not installed anymore)