Installion: How To Uninstall gcc-doc On Ubuntu 16.10

How To Uninstall gcc-doc On Ubuntu 16.10

To uninstall gcc-doc just follow these instructions.

Are you having problems? You can always add gcc-docagain by following the instructions at this link.

sudo apt-get remove gcc-doc

This will remove just the gcc-doc package itself.

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove gcc-doc

This will remove the gcc-doc package and any other dependant packages which are no longer needed.

If you also want to delete your local/config files for gcc-doc then this will work.

Caution! Purged config/data can not be restored by reinstalling the package.

sudo apt-get purge gcc-doc

Or similarly, like this gcc-doc

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove gcc-doc

Package	gcc-doc
Version	4:6.1.1-1ubuntu2
Maintainer	Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Description	Documentation for the GNU C compilers (gcc, gobjc, g++)
Distro	ubuntu
Release	yakkety
Repo	main
Section	doc