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Hiroyatamoto

06-28-2008 10:44 AM

Uninstalling packets in Ubuntu

How do I completely uninstall a packet in Ubuntu?

tungvs

06-28-2008 11:37 AM

You can try: apt-get purge <package_name>

Hiroyatamoto

06-29-2008 09:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tungvs (Post 3197794)

You can try: apt-get purge <package_name>

Thank you.

I will try it out.

reddazz

06-29-2008 10:49 AM

The following should work

Code:

sudo apt-get remove --purge somepkg

and

Code:

sudo aptitude purge somepkg

Hiroyatamoto

06-30-2008 08:53 PM

Thank you very much!

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