didier gaumet wrote:
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)
Ah yeah that makes sense, I've also learned about autopurge, can use this to
remove unused kernels since dkms leaves bits and pieces behind.
