A way to uninstall packages?

[honda4life]

Hi everyone,

I want to keep my install as clean as possible.
How can I do that?
I've compiled a few programs and needed some additional libraries installed.
So far so good, but I've installed some not needed packages too.
A kind of "package snapshot program" should do the trick.
Now I have 2 sd cards, one for testing and compiling until it works, and another one for final installation.
There must be another way to do this I think.

Thank you!

[Robert_M]

The way I discovered to do this, earlier today, is to use this code:

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sudo apt-get --purge remove <package>

Where <package> is the name of the package you want to uninstall.

I was trying out alternate pdf readers (from the included MuPDF in Wheezy) and used this code to ditch the alternative I decided I didn't want to use.

As far as a "snapshot" function, someone else will have to address that!

[rasbeer]

Is this the snapshot thing you're after:
http://wiki.debian.org/AptOnCd
or this
http://wiki.debian.org/AptZip

Also apt saves the .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives . I think you can just copy them to somewhere else and reinstall with dpkg -i. But I'm not sure if/how that handles dependencies

[ghans]

Its called checkinstall.
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
Finally. I found it. Took some time to rack my brain.

ghans

[AndrewS]

Depending on what it is you want to do, you may find http://www.ubuntugeek.com/clone-your-ub ... ation.html useful too.

[Carbonera]

Now it works fine. The problem is the version of jre.
Thank you all.

[Super-Nathan]

If you have uninstalled a lot of software you can check/delete orphans with

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sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

Just MAKE SURE That you double-tripple the list of stuff it finds.