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Comment 2 for bug 122064

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Conrad Knauer (atheoi) wrote : Re: [Wishlist] Removing software+dependencies currently much more difficult than installing them

I can confirm (in Hardy, post beta) that the command line version works beautifully; e.g. as per my example of the alien package, after doing a fresh install from Synaptic:

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$ sudo apt-get autoremove alien
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  debhelper intltool-debian po-debconf gettext libtimedate-perl dpkg-dev
  html2text patch
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  alien debhelper dpkg-dev gettext html2text intltool-debian libtimedate-perl
  patch po-debconf
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 12.4MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 147198 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing alien ...
Removing debhelper ...
Removing dpkg-dev ...
Removing po-debconf ...
Removing intltool-debian ...
Removing gettext ...
Removing html2text ...
Removing libtimedate-perl ...
Removing patch ...
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(which is very neat; I didn't know about that :)

But unfortunately, I don't see a Synaptic option for this.