nala-autoremove8

Usage

Overview

Automatically remove or purge any packages that are no longer needed.

Packages that are no longer needed are usually dependencies that were automatically installed and no package depends on them any longer.

The autoremove and autopurge documentation are combined as they are almost the same command.

nala autopurge is really just nala autoremove --purge

Options

--config

Purge configuration files for packages that are no longer installed.

--purge

Purge any packages that would removed during the transaction.

--debug

Print helpful information for solving issues. If you're submitting a bug report try running the command again with --debug and providing the output to the devs, it may be helpful.

--raw-dpkg

Force nala not to format dpkg output.

This disables all formatting and it would look as if you were using apt.

A more indepth explanation for what this switch does, nala will fork a tty instead of a pty for dpkg.

nala will also not display a progress bar for dpkg with this turned on. Additionally the language of the output will not be forced into English for this mode.

-d, --download-only

Packages are only retrieved, not unpacked or installed.

--remove-essential

Allow the removal of essential packages.

This is very dangerous, but we thought you should have the option.

--assume-yes, --assume-no

-y, --assume-yes

Automatically select yes for any prompts which may need your input.

If the configuration option assume_yes is true, this switch will set it back to default behavior

-n, --assume-no

Automatically select no for any prompts which may need your input.

--simple, --no-simple

--simple

Show a more simple and condensed transaction summary.

--no-simple

Show the standard table transatction summary with more information.

This variant is the default

-o, --option

Set options to pass through to apt, nala, or dpkg.

Example:

Force dpkg to install new config files without prompting:

nala install --option Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew"

Disable scrolling text for nala

nala install --option Nala::scrolling_text="false"

Allow nala to update unauthenticated repositories:

nala install --option* APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated="true"

-v, --verbose

Disable scrolling text and print extra information

-h, --help

Shows this man page.

--update, --no-update

--update

Update the package list before the requested operation.

Example:

nala install --update neofetch

is equivalent to

apt update && apt install neofetch

[Default for: upgrade]

--no-update

Do NOT update the package list before the requested operation.

[Default for: install, remove, purge, autoremove, autopurge]

--fix-broken, --no-fix-broken

--fix-broken

Attempts to fix broken packages.

This variant is the default

--no-fix-broken

Stops nala from performing extra checks.

This can result in a broken install!

If you just want to fix broken packages:

nala install --fix-broken