Re: purge packages selected for removal by apt-get

> > Untested, but should work: > > apt-get --purge install vlc > > See the man-page: > >--purge >Use purge instead of remove for anything that would be removed. > Thanks. It works. I always thought --purge should be used along with remove but never thought of using it along wi

Re: purge packages selected for removal by apt-get

kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > 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 combina

purge packages selected for removal by apt-get

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-