PaulBx
January 3rd, 2016, 10:16 PM
I installed tiemu, a TI-89 calculator emulator. It had various dependencies like libticables2, libticonv7 and libtifiles2 that it also installed. All well and good.
I played with it a bit and decided to uninstall tiemu. I told Synaptic to "mark for complete removal" and it did that. Then I looked at the dependencies and found them still installed.
Somehow, I imagined Synaptic would be able to find dependencies that were used by nothing else and uninstall them as well. If that's not the way it works, I must have a huge load of libraries that none of my programs are using... Is that the way it is supposed to work? Do we have to chase down the dependencies manually, when doing removals?
I looked in the Synaptic help and found nothing about dependencies, where removal was concerned.
uname -a shows this:
Linux len780 3.13.0-74-generic #118-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 17 22:52:10 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Synaptic is version 0.81.1
I played with it a bit and decided to uninstall tiemu. I told Synaptic to "mark for complete removal" and it did that. Then I looked at the dependencies and found them still installed.
Somehow, I imagined Synaptic would be able to find dependencies that were used by nothing else and uninstall them as well. If that's not the way it works, I must have a huge load of libraries that none of my programs are using... Is that the way it is supposed to work? Do we have to chase down the dependencies manually, when doing removals?
I looked in the Synaptic help and found nothing about dependencies, where removal was concerned.
uname -a shows this:
Linux len780 3.13.0-74-generic #118-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 17 22:52:10 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Synaptic is version 0.81.1