How to purge emacs from LMDE 2

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I do not know if it's related only to LMDE 2 or debian jessie in general, but I just saw I had emacs installed so I wanted to remove it, and if I do:

sudo apt purge emacs24

I get:

The following extra packages will be installed:
  xemacs21-basesupport xemacs21-bin xemacs21-mule xemacs21-mulesupport xemacs21-support

I tried purging emacs24 still, in order to then purge xemacs21, but when I do so it reinstalls emacs24.

I am not a VIM user, but it still pisses me off a bit...??

Shautieh

Posted 2017-09-13T05:09:09.667

Reputation: 200

Answers

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You may have have a package that depends on "emacsen", which is a "virtual package" used to say that a package depends on any version of emacs.

You can check this using the following command:

apt-cache rdepends emacsen

Or if you are familiar with the "aptitude" command, checking the "Packages who depend on emacs24/xemacs21-bin" section.

Josue Abarca

Posted 2017-09-13T05:09:09.667

Reputation: 136

1I have no emacsen package but this led me on the right track. I searched more to list only the installed dependencies, and if I do aptitude why emacs it gives me false info, so I tried apt-cache rdepends --installed emacs which told me this one was not installed. Tried the same with emacs24 and the culprit was uim-el. After purging that, I can delete emacs* just fine. Thanks! – Shautieh – 2017-10-25T04:04:22.607

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