Last Updated on April 21, 2020 by Vikash Ekka
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| Difference between apt-get remove and purge and autoremove in Ubuntu? |
Let’s explain this by taking php package as the one to be removed.
purge
sudo apt-get purge php
This removes the package as well as its configuration files. But the dependencies will remain in the system. However, configuration files in the home directory won’t get removed.
This command is the same as using –purge option with the above remove command.
remove
sudo apt-get remove php
This removes the PHP binaries, but it’s configuration files and installed dependencies will remain in the system.
autoremove
sudo apt-get autoremove php
This will remove the package as well as its dependencies, if those dependencies aren’t used by other packages.
sudo apt-get automove
If the package name is not specified with autoremove, it will remove all the unused dependencies in the system.