The Joy of Penguins : Linux System Administration

APT - Removing Packages

The command to remove a package via APT is as follows:

[root@localhost bin]# apt-get remove package

For example:

[root@localhost bin]# apt-get remove tuxpaint

            Reading Package Lists... Done
            Building Dependency Tree... Done
            The following packages will be REMOVED:
            tuxpaint
            0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 166 not upgraded.
            Need to get 0B of archives.
            After unpacking 5752kB disk space will be freed.
            Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
            Committing changes...
            Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
            Done.