Linux and Uninstalling

[Joveice]

Uninstalling a Linux program without removing other stuff thats needed like lib's and that, and also not removing any of the lib's that come with the Ubuntu from install.

What's the commands I would need to use?

[RedWulf]

Are you asking how to uninstall a program without removing its dependents or how to remove everything but bare Ubuntu?

sudo apt-get remove program-package

I think thats the general uninstall for debian 

[steezemageeze]

apt-get remove packagename I think is what you're looking for. It just removes the binaries, not the dependencies and data files.

[Joveice]

3 minutes ago, RedWulf said:

Are you asking how to uninstall a program without removing its dependents or how to remove everything but bare Ubuntu?

sudo apt-get remove program-package

I think thats the general uninstall for debian 

 

2 minutes ago, steezemageeze said:

apt-get remove packagename I think is what you're looking for. It just removes the binaries, not the dependencies and data files.

Yea sorry if I specyfied myself a litte bad. Last time I tryed to remove 1 program i got instructions to use purge and autoremove, and after that the server was useless becouse all the lib programs where gone so I had to do a reinstall

[steezemageeze]

Just now, Joveice said:

 

Yea sorry if I specyfied myself a litte bad. Last time I tryed to remove 1 program i got instructions to use purge and autoremove, and after that the server was useless becouse all the lib programs where gone so I had to do a reinstall

We got the meaning lol. Purge will completely remove the program, with all of its files and configs, and autoremove gets rid of orphaned dependencies. I'd guess using autoremove is where you went wrong.

[Joveice]

1 minute ago, steezemageeze said:

We got the meaning lol. Purge will completely remove the program, with all of its files and configs, and autoremove gets rid of orphaned dependencies. I'd guess using autoremove is where you went wrong.

So I could use purge? I wanna remove stuff like mailserver but still keep all the lib's that ubuntu had becouse I know that if some are missing my game server won't work

[RedWulf]

Just now, Joveice said:

So I could use purge? I wanna remove stuff like mailserver but still keep all the lib's that ubuntu had becouse I know that if some are missing my game server won't work

I think purge will remove all associates of the target program regardless of if other programs use those libs. However, updates and reinstall may correct the issue.