Frequent Question: How Do You Purge in Linux?

To uninstall a program, use the “apt-get” command, which is the general command for installing programs and manipulating installed programs. For example, the following command uninstalls gimp and deletes all the configuration files, using the “ — purge” (there are two dashes before “purge”) command.

What is Purge command?

Purge is a command that can be used to remove unused Entities (lines, circles, Arc and others), and table (layers, dimstyles, block definitions and others) in a drawing design. By doing purge, you also can compress the AutoCAD file size becomes smaller.

What is Purge command in Ubuntu?

You can use this command: sudo apt-get purge –auto-remove packagename. It will purge required packages along with dependencies that are installed with those packages. The –auto-remove option (being an alias of autoremove ) works similar to sudo apt-get autoremove .