uninstall app

[Michael V. De Palatis]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:44:05AM -0400, bill biggs wrote:
> I would like to know if there is a way to uninstall app and leave the
> dep. files ? 

What do you mean by the 'dep.' files? If you mean you want to install
an application with all its dependencies, then remove the application,
apt should handle that for you. Simply 'sudo apt-get remove xxx'. The
only dependencies that will be removed are those that aren't being
used by anything else (and even then, I'm not sure that apt by itself
handles this all the time).

Alternatively, if you wanted to build something from source, but don't
have the dependencies yet, then if the package you want is available
as a source .deb, you can run 'sudo apt-get build-dep xxx'. This will
get all the build dependencies for you.

I hope that at least somewhat answered your question...

Mike