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How to uninstall OpenJDK?

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I don't want OpenJDK installed on my Ubuntu 13.04 system, but trying to uninstall the openjdk-7-jre yields the following message:

$ sudo apt-get purge openjdk-7-jre

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following extra packages will be installed:

  gcj-4.7-base gcj-4.7-jre gcj-4.7-jre-headless gcj-4.7-jre-lib gcj-jre gcj-jre-headless icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm libgcj-common libgcj13 libgcj13-awt

  openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib

Suggested packages:

  fastjar gcj-4.7-jdk gcj-jdk libgcj13-dbg sun-java6-fonts fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-ipafont-mincho ttf-telugu-fonts ttf-oriya-fonts ttf-kannada-fonts

  ttf-bengali-fonts

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  default-jre* icedtea-7-plugin* icedtea-netx* icedtea-plugin* libatk-wrapper-java* libatk-wrapper-java-jni* openjdk-7-jre*

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  gcj-4.7-base gcj-4.7-jre gcj-4.7-jre-headless gcj-4.7-jre-lib gcj-jre gcj-jre-headless icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm libgcj-common libgcj13 libgcj13-awt

  openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib

0 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 7 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

Need to get 57,0 MB/57,2 MB of archives.

After this operation, 156 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

What do I need to do so that no new packages, of which I need none, will be installed when removing openjdk-7?

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answered 2 Years ago llianconclad · Accepted Answer

You can use the following command:

sudo apt-get purge openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless openjdk-7-jre gcj-4.7-base gcj-4.7-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless

In this way no new packages will be installed. Here is my output for the above command:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Package 'gcj-4.7-base' is not installed, so not removed

Package 'gcj-4.7-jre' is not installed, so not removed

Package 'openjdk-6-jre-headless' is not installed, so not removed

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  default-jre* icedtea-7-plugin* icedtea-netx* libatk-wrapper-java*

  libatk-wrapper-java-jni* libreoffice-base* minecraft-installer*

  openjdk-7-jre*

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

After this operation, 10,3 MB disk space will be freed.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

But, I don't suggest you to do this. In one day you will need for sure an OpenJDK (6 or 7).