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Some time ago I installed Steam by downloading the deb file from their website. There were a lot of unmet dependencies which got solved by sudo apt-get -f install. When I tried to remove steam, using sudo apt-get remove steam-launcher, it seems to have removed only that package and not the n number of unmet dependencies that it showed at the time of installation.

Is there any way of checking whether those unnecessary packages are removed or not? And if those are still present, how do I remove?

Edit: sudo apt autoremove doesn't list any packages to be removed.

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  • It may sound counter-intuitive, but have you tried running sudo apt-get install steam-launcher to overwrite the files as apt-installed, therefore sudo apt-get remove steam-launcher && apt autoremove may work.
    – David
    Oct 7, 2016 at 11:16
  • @DavidCole-GrammarPolice There is no steam-launcher package for xenial, but there is just steam. Trying to install it gives error dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/steam_1%3a1.0.0.48-1ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 30 Installation terminated: Steam License Agreement was DECLINED. It never asked for agreement! Oct 7, 2016 at 11:22
  • Run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install -f, it would seem that Steam is stuck in an install loop
    – David
    Oct 7, 2016 at 11:48

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sudo apt-get autoremove

However, check what kind of packages it will offer to remove before pressing enter, as it may offer to remove some packages that you still use.

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  • It doesn't list any packages to be removed. As far as I know autoremove only removes any unnecessary dependencies that were installed by apt by default. Oct 7, 2016 at 11:09
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As my comment suggested, you could try re-installing steam via

apt-get install steam

Which would mark the files as "installed by apt," therefore making it more possible to remove these files via other aptitude commands (apt autoremove, apt-get remove, etc)

If that doesn't work, you can always go with a more hands-on approach. Open up terminal and run

find . -name "steam"

And any files that were installed under steam, or the steam launcher should be in the path(s) found by the command.

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