How to remove all the bits of a package installed by mistake?

[Alan Pope]

2009/12/16 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:

> No, that just removes configuration files etc.
>

sudo apt-get autoremove <packagename>

>From the man page:-

       autoremove
           autoremove is used to remove packages that were
automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for some package and
that are no more needed.

Cheers,
Al.