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)