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So how do you delete app data after uninstalling?
And does uninstalling a flatpak app also uninstall flatpak dependencies that came with it?
flatpak uninstall --delete-data example-package
from what I have seen, NO it does not do so automatically. there is a flatpak command option to clean out unused runtimes, and another to remove user data.
you either manually delete the data, or there's some
flatpak
command option, or you can use a tool such aswarehouse
which is available as a flatpak.other posts list the specific commands.
you can use
flatpak remove --unused --delete-data
to remove all unused dependencies and delete their data.It does. The unused command is mostly for after updates, then what’s used may have changed.