Say in order to install package A, apt-get wants to remove package B. Is there any way to tell apt-get to purge package B instead of just removing it?
Consider the following situation where I am trying to install the vlc package on a machine running a combination of Wheezy and Jessie. % sudo apt-get install vlc ... The following packages will be REMOVED: libfreerdp1 libvlccore7 ... 22 upgraded, 37 newly installed, 2 to remove and 2035 not upgraded. Here, I prefer apt-get to automatically purge libfreerdp1 libvlccore7 instead of just removing them. If I try to manually purge them, apt-get wants to remove a lot of packages which I prefer not to do. % sudo apt-get remove --purge libfreerdp1 libvlccore7 ... 30 upgraded, 45 newly installed, 239 to remove and 1872 not upgraded. Any ideas/suggestions/comments? thanks in advance -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cabpbyafthvmfmw1bg-suzandj0wtn0bsuwmphvwcvqmemny...@mail.gmail.com
