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Today I installed the package maven on my system. Unfortunately its the wrong version. Now I'd like to uninstall all packages that were installed as dependencies. Do I have to uninstall them manually? or is there a way to uninstall all packages that were installed for maven?

grep install /var/log/dpkg.log

tells me, that its quite a lot of packages,...

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2015-01-11 20:20:16 status installed libaspectj-java:all 1.6.12+dfsg-3
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    After removing maven with sudo apt-get remove maven try sudo apt-get autoremove. This removes all packages were installed due to dependencies, but the package that depend on them was removed.
    – julka
    Jan 11, 2015 at 21:58

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Dependencies (and configuration files if you ran the application) can be automatically removed by issuing the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove maven
sudo apt-get purge

if you want to erase old downloaded archive files as well, do an:

sudo apt-get autoclean

after that you should be able to safely install maven2...

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