Page 1 of 1
Updates: How To Get Rid of List of Unneeded Packages?
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 2:14 pm
by 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?
Re: Updates: How To Get Rid of List of Unneeded Packages?
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 2:19 pm
by DerRoteBlitz
Press F4 and type
Thats it...
Re: Updates: How To Get Rid of List of Unneeded Packages?
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 2:42 pm
by 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.
Re: Updates: How To Get Rid of List of Unneeded Packages?
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:13 pm
by 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
Re: Updates: How To Get Rid of List of Unneeded Packages?
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 3:49 am
by Eadwine Rose
chrispop99 wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:13 pm
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.
Re: Updates: How To Get Rid of List of Unneeded Packages?
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 10:34 am
by shrinker09
Stevo wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 2:42 pm
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.
This is what came up:
Code: Select all
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]