Difference Between 'apt remove' and 'apt purge'

Difference Between ‘apt remove’ and ‘apt purge’

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Dec 27, 2022

The apt package manager is a command-line utility used by Debian-based Linux distributions. Here’s how to use it to uninstall an existing application.

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