trying to remove apps
 

Probably a stupid question, but you gotta start somewhere

I have installed Ubuntu and KDE but when I try and remove a single application synaptics always tells me it is removing other packages aswell.

for instance trying to remove vim-tiny will also remove ubuntu-minimal while trying to remove kate will uninstall kde-amusements among others. Why is this? why can't you remove just single applications?

Also are the packages that are downloaded saved somewhere, and if so can they be removed?

Thanks

Stuart

I'm think ubuntu-minimal and kde-amusements are meta-packages in that they just point to a group of packages. So it's okay to remove them, the individual apps that were installed will still be there. For example, you could remove kde-amusements yourself, but kate would still be installed (I think).

The packages are saved to /var/cache/apt (I believe) but then they get unpacked and installed to /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, or /usr/sbin (not to mention the config files get sprayed around). So removing them via synaptic or aptitude really is the best way.

but can I delete the .deb files out of /var/cache/apt/archives?

Yes. This files in /var/cache/apt/archives are just cached copies of the packages. You can delete them whether you have the package installed or not. In fact, you can just run "apt-get clean" to clean out that directory entirely.