Remove apps with style: nuke it from orbit

function nuke() { if [ $(whoami) != "root" ] ; then for x in $@; do sudo apt-get autoremove --purge $x; done; else for x in $@; do apt-get autoremove --purge $x; done; fi }

You can't stand programs x, y, and z. Remove all trace of their existence by adding this function to your config. It will remove the cruft, the settings, and such and such. This function doesn't even give a damn about you trying to remove programs that don't exist: it'll just for loop to the next one on your hit list.

Sample Output

hello@goodbye:~$ nuke amarok emacs vim
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package amarok
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package emacs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package vim
hello@goodbye:~$

By: ruinbox

2009-03-25 23:21:21

sudo sudo apt-get

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What Others Think

this can be shortened a lot. sudo aptitude purge $@ should accomplish the same thing. Aptitude throws an error on packages not found, as opposed to stopping like apt. Additionally, the default behaviour of aptitude is to autoremove packages, so that libraries installed for something you removed will go away.

clockworkavian · 820 weeks ago

Wow thanks. I did not know that about aptitude. Well that settles it then. Move along, nothing to see here.

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donperi1 · 65 weeks and 2 days ago

What do you think?

Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?

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