purging a program [duplicate]

Question

I recently installed SDL2 and want to purge all of it from my system.

I know there's a million different libraries scattered all over the system.

anyway I can just uninstall everything without searching everywhere and pulling all kinds of files.

Answer 1

you probably went on with terminal and typed something like:

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev

You can reverse the install of every install you make by editing the code:

sudo apt-get remove libsdl2-dev and purging it with --purge, then it looks like:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libsdl2-dev

Your terminal has a history, so every command you entered lately can be found by pressing the UP key, find what you installed and change the code to remove/purge it.

EDIT: Run the whole command in terminal to clean up.

echo "Cleaning Up" &&
sudo apt-get -f install &&
sudo apt-get autoremove &&
sudo apt-get -y autoclean &&
sudo apt-get -y clean

After that you can check the residual files in Synaptic Package Manager, referring you to this LINK