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Remove all development libraries

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I've built a few apps from source which required development libraries. And when I installed them, they installed more -dev dependencies.

Now I want to remove those libraries.

The command sudo apt-get purge lib*-dev can do any harm to my Ubuntu installation?

Are there any development libraries included in a fresh install of Ubuntu? If there are, should I keep them?

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answered 1 Year ago feeous · Accepted Answer

Basically, you don't need any development libraries to run your system. As the name says, they are for development purposes. The libraries used to run these applications are different ones.

Your command looks fine to me, but anyway APT is giving you a list with the packages to be removed. Just watch it for packages you need (everything without the -dev would be suspicious)