dpkg-remove(8)

💖 dpkg-remove — mark packages for removal 💖

okay bestie, welcome to dpkg-remove, part of the dpkg suite ✨ it's a whole little manual page (section 8, executables and system admin, iykyk) and we're gonna get through it together 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dpkg-remove [package...]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you hand it some package names, it does a thing 💅

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🚨 WARNING 🚨

NOT ME BEING DEPRECATED 😭 this command is deprecated, and it will be removed during in Debian forky. that's not a drill, that's a whole countdown timer. use dpkg --set-selections or apt-mark instead, fr fr.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so what does it actually do? dpkg-remove marks package(s) to be removed. that's the whole job. the entire assignment. the main character task 👑

the way it pulls this off is kinda iconic actually — it runs dpkg --set-selections and pipes in the package name(s) followed by deinstall. that's the mechanic, that's the sauce 🍓

NOTE: this program does not install, remove, purge any package. it ONLY sets the status of the package. any actual removal or purging is done the next time dselect, apt-get, aptitude, etc are run. so like… it's the promise of a removal, not the removal itself 💀 don't come for me when the package is still sitting there, it did its one (1) job

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• dpkg(1)
• apt-mark(8)
• dpkg-hold(1)
• dpkg-unhold(1)
• dpkg-purge(1)

go read those too, they're all part of the same little family 🌈

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and that's the page!! this one's version 1.17, dated 2024-11-25, and it lives in the dpkg suite forever and ever (or at least until forky, bestie, so use it while it lasts 🙈✨🎀🦋💜)