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35 questions linked to/from apt-get remove with wildcard removed way more than expected. why?
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Why does apt removes unwanted packages when giving * as suffix? [duplicate]
I did a sudo apt-get remove ruby* and then I saw that some grub packages were being removed too so I went to installed back those packages which log showed to have removed
I set grub to work on my /...
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What is the difference between fglrx* and fglrx? [duplicate]
Is there a difference between fglrx* and fglrx?
What is the meaning of * if added??
I did use the following steps because I was not sure whether I've had a graphic driver or not. So I wanted to ...
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What is the correct way to completely remove an application?
I've searched the net for such information and found different command lines, like these ones:
sudo apt-get remove application
sudo apt-get remove application*
sudo apt-get remove --purge ...
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Can 'sudo apt-get remove [write]' destroy my Ubuntu?
I wanted to remove my 'write' app, so I found this on a site:
To remove a package type:
sudo apt-get remove [package_name]
So I typed:
sudo apt-get remove [write]
And afterwards I agreed on the ...
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How do I remove the proprietary ATI drivers?
I've installed 11.10 and the proprietary ATI drivers using "additional drivers" The performance of my system is absolutely awful and it shouldn't be. I tried to remove the proprietary drivers using ...
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Ubuntu system is broken after accidentally uninstalling many packages
I accidentally removed all the packages starting with the name jpeg with:
sudo apt-get remove jpeg*
This screwed up a lot of things, removed Unity, Firefox, Flash player etc.
I somehow managed to ...
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How to remove desktop environments?
I installed few environments that I wanted to try out on Ubuntu 12.04, but none of them worked at all. It could be that I installed them all at the same time, meaning the OS didn't get a chance to ...
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VirtualBox 5.0 installation has broken VirtualBox packages on Kubuntu 15.04
Seeing that there was a new VirtualBox release, I tried to install it on Kubuntu 15.04...
However, now all of my VBox 4.3 packages in the ubuntu repositories are broken (Virtualbox is provided by ...
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After the upgrade to 17.10 I only get a black screen. How do I fix this?
I used the upgrade manager to upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10. When I start the machine, I only get a black flickering screen now. I was using the nvidia binary drivers before the upgrade.
NOTE: This ...
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Shorter way to apt-get install php7.0-{some modules}
I am currently installing php7.0 and was wondering if there is an shorter way to install the modules. normally I type:
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-fpm php7.0-mbstring php7.0-mcrypt
php7.0-...
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Unable to remove wine [duplicate]
I tried to remove wine but it says that virtual packages like wine can't be removed. Also I am unable to find my .wine file.
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How to remove redmine from ubuntu 12.04
Log:
:/opt/maven$ sudo apt-get -f install redmine-sqlite
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to ...
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Why doesn't usage of '*' always work on zsh?
I ran the following command on zsh
sudo apt-get install rhythmbox*
It produced an error, when I ran the same command in bash it worked. Why does this happen?
How can I make the above command work ...
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Remove all development libraries
I've built a few apps from source which required development libraries. And when I installed them, they installed more -dev dependencies.
Now I want to remove those libraries.
The command sudo apt-...
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How do I make space on /boot?
How do I free up space on /boot?
ls /boot/
abi-4.2.0-16-generic memtest86+.bin
abi-4.2.0-19-generic memtest86+.elf
abi-4.2.0-22-generic memtest86+_multiboot.bin
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