Overview for freesweep

How to remove (uninstall) Freesweep game in Devuan Linux [with screenshots]

Freesweep is a game designed especially to play in terminal and is an implemenetation of popular minesweeper game; originally was written in C programming language for Unix-liste systems. Freesweep is installed by default in Devuan Linux and if you are not a fan of this game and don't need it, just remove it from your system by running following command in terminal:

$ sudo apt purge freesweep

output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  freesweep*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
After this operation, 141 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 107763 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing freesweep (0.90-3+b1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...
(Reading database ... 107753 files and directories currently installed.)
Purging configuration files for freesweep (0.90-3+b1) ...

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Written by Administrator on Friday May 8, 2020