2012年9月4日 · Configuration Item: APT::Get::Purge. They key part is --purge is equivalent to the purge command. As to why - I would surmise this is historical - apt-get --purge remove came before apt-get purge. Looking at the old apt documentation it make reference to the older version of the command. The newer documentation gives the aptitude & apt-get ...

2012年9月15日 · The --purge option is also handy when trying to fully remove any remaining dependencies including their config files: apt-get-autoremove --purge It's also important to note that configuration files in your home directory are unaffected by the --purge option. These you will have to remove manually.

2022年2月17日 · The purge command is a part of the apt autoremove command. You have to put them in order to be able to run the command... Autoremove is a sub-command of apt, and --purge is a sub-command of autoremove. You have to call the first sub command before running the last sub-command. If you do them in the wrong order, it won't work.

Purge can be used on a meta package to remove it, while leaving the underlying package intact. If you want to upgrade the base system without affecting postgres, you can apt-get purge the postgres meta package and then upgrading from Debian 7- Debian 8 will leave your postgres version untouched.

2017年2月6日 · Sometimes a package is broken and needs to be reinstalled from scratch. I can use apt-get purge followed by apt-get install, but then I have to watch if any dependent packages got uninstalled and remember to re-install them. Is there a command to purge and reinstall a package, that handles dependencies?

2013年11月24日 · $ sudo apt purge nvidia-xxx.xx Or: $ sudo apt purge nvidia-driver-xxx.xx It will only remove that package but will also flag its dependencies for removal. To remove the dependencies is easy. $ sudo apt autoremove $ sudo apt autoclean So for example, if you have the 390.xx package installed, it would be.

2015年12月12日 · When I had tried out lubuntu-desktop it fixed some conflicts and removed the entries from the DM login that were left by purge and autoremove. A similar method which works well, is probably safer, but still doesn't always get everything is: sudo apt-get --purge autoremove PACKAGENAME Which may or may not need to be followed up with:

2017年1月30日 · purge purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed and purged (any configuration files are deleted too). Basically it is the same option. Mind you: removal of dependencies does not happen with dpkg. apt-get does remove dependencies

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2015年12月21日 · The --purge flag ensures that not only the package but also its configuration files are removed. Replace {package-name} with the actual name of the package you want to remove. sudo apt-get autoremove : After removing a package, there may be additional packages that were installed as dependencies but are no longer needed by any other package on ...