Updates: How To Get Rid of List of Unneeded Packages?

[shrinker09]

When MX-Linux updates, it starts with a list of packages that it says were removed and are no longer needed, so it's not going to update them. Then it says to use apt-get or whatever to remove them. I meant to copy the list and the command and paste here, but when I used the keyboard to copy, it closed the software updater.

I recognize some of the things in the list that I uninstalled a few days ago (like MariaDB). I thought I had completely uninstalled them in Synaptic, but apparently they're still there. Do I need to copy the list of programs and then do the command line with each item in the list? Is there a way to open Synaptic Package Manager and get rid of them that way?

[DerRoteBlitz]

Press F4 and type

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sudo apt autoremove

Thats it...

[Stevo]

Those packages are still on your system, but are listed as orphaned and unwanted.

But people have borked their systems by getting too trigger-happy with the autoremove, so you should simulate a removal first and copypaste the list first here so we can take a look at it. Plus it's never a bad idea to make regular system backups or restore points, anyway.

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sudo apt -s autoremove

[chrispop99]

Also not that those files will not harm your system, or take any significant space.

I've gotten out of the habit of removing them, and just let them remain.

Chris

[Eadwine Rose]

Also not that those files will not harm your system, or take any significant space.

I've gotten out of the habit of removing them, and just let them remain.

Chris

Same here.. I was one of those who borked in the past.. they don't bug me, so.. they can stay.

[shrinker09]

Those packages are still on your system, but are listed as orphaned and unwanted.

But people have borked their systems by getting too trigger-happy with the autoremove, so you should simulate a removal first and copypaste the list first here so we can take a look at it. Plus it's never a bad idea to make regular system backups or restore points, anyway.

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sudo apt -s autoremove

This is what came up:

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The following packages will be REMOVED:
  apache2-bin apache2-data cinnamon-desktop-data galera-3 libapr1 libaprutil1
  libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libcinnamon-desktop4 libconfig-inifiles-perl
  libdbi-perl libexempi8 libgail-3-0 libgle3 libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd8 libnemo-extension1
  libxapp1 mariadb-client-10.3 mariadb-client-core-10.3 mariadb-server-10.3
  mariadb-server-core-10.3 nemo-data python3-pypdf2 xapps-common xsel
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 26 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Remv apache2-bin [2.4.38-3+deb10u4]
Remv apache2-data [2.4.38-3+deb10u4]
Remv libcinnamon-desktop4 [3.8.1-2]
Remv cinnamon-desktop-data [3.8.1-2]
Remv mariadb-server-10.3 [1:10.3.23-0+deb10u1]
Remv galera-3 [25.3.25-2]
Remv libaprutil1-ldap [1.6.1-4]
Remv libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 [1.6.1-4]
Remv libaprutil1 [1.6.1-4]
Remv libapr1 [1.6.5-1+b1]
Remv mariadb-client-10.3 [1:10.3.23-0+deb10u1]
Remv libconfig-inifiles-perl [3.000001-1]
Remv libdbi-perl [1.642-1+deb10u1]
Remv libexempi8 [2.5.0-2]
Remv libgail-3-0 [3.24.5-1.3MX19]
Remv libgle3 [3.1.0-7.2]
Remv libxapp1 [1.8.9-1~mx19+1]
Remv libgnomekbd8 [3.26.1-1]
Remv libgnomekbd-common [3.26.1-1]
Remv libnemo-extension1 [3.8.5-1+b1]
Remv mariadb-client-core-10.3 [1:10.3.23-0+deb10u1]
Remv mariadb-server-core-10.3 [1:10.3.23-0+deb10u1]
Remv nemo-data [3.8.5-1]
Remv python3-pypdf2 [1.26.0-2]
Remv xapps-common [1.8.9-1~mx19+1]
Remv xsel [1.2.0+git9bfc13d.20180109-1]