How to uninstall things installed with dpkg?

[Nils Kassube]

pete smout wrote:
> On 19/05/13 22:54, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > ~$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get autoremove
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
> > ~$
> > 
> > Those ”5 not upgraded”, how can I see them? What does it mean? That
> > they are not upgraded, but they SHOULD be?
> 
> I had this once on Lucid, got round it using synaptic marking all
> upgrades, then you can review them after clicking apply! (just to make
> sure your not upgrading what youve spent hours trying to remove!)

IMHO synaptic is the better choice, but if you really prefer the command 
line, you could use

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

and it should upgrade those 5 packages as well.


Nils