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Can you remove installed programs/ apps through terminal in Linux Mint 16?

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I installed Linux Mint 16. It was working perfectly. Then I went over to Foss and applied the "10 things you must do after installing Linux Mint" and screwed it all up. I got the message," either a program is incompatable or you ran out of disk space". I went to recover mode in grub, to uninstall unusable packages and fix broken packages but that didn't work. I don't want to uninstall LM . Is there anything I can do through "terminal" to correct my mistake? Any ideas ?

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IvoGuerreiro (ivoguerreiro) said : 		#1

Hi, you can uninstall in 2 ways:
1º - install Synaptic and uninstall all dependencies of the app you want to uninstall
2º - in the terminal use "sudo apt-get purge app_name"
and then "sudo apt-get autoremove" to clean the packages were automatically installed and are no longer required.

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