Overview for purge

How to remove (uninstall) HasciiCam from Devuan Linux

If don't need HasciiCam in your Devuan Linux system, you can run those two commands to remove it completely:

$ sudo apt-get purge hasciicam && apt autoremove hasciicam

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libftp4
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  hasciicam*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 64.5 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 106786 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing hasciicam (1.1.2-1+b3) ...
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) ...
(Reading database ... 106772 files and directories currently installed.)
Purging configuration files for hasciicam (1.1.2-1+b3) ...


$ sudo apt autoremove hasciicam
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package 'hasciicam' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libftp4
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 55.3 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 106772 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libftp4:amd64 (4.0-1-2+b1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u4) ...

Written by Administrator on Thursday April 23, 2020

How to remove (uninstall) Matanza from Devuan Linux

If you don't like the game Matanza or just clearing your system from unuseful packages and applications, you can remove it with executing following command in terminal:

$ sudo apt-get purge matanza

output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  exfalso fonts-font-awesome fonts-lato gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0
  gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 gir1.2-keybinder-3.0
  javascript-common libboost-program-options1.62.0 libgpod-common libgpod4
  libgtksourceview-3.0-1 libgtksourceview-3.0-common libjs-jquery
  libjs-modernizr libjs-sphinxdoc libjs-underscore libsgutils2-2
  media-player-info python-chardet python-feedparser python-libxml2
  python-musicbrainzngs python-mutagen python-pkg-resources python-pyinotify
  python-utidylib sphinx-rtd-theme-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  matanza*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 392 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 108459 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing matanza (0.13+ds1-5+b2) ...
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) ...
(Reading database ... 108437 files and directories currently installed.)
Purging configuration files for matanza (0.13+ds1-5+b2) ...

Written by Administrator on Thursday April 23, 2020