Terminal Question (removing applications)

studiorat

Is there a Mac version of the Advanced Packaging Tool or something I can use to "purge" or "autoremove" an application and it's libraries or dependencies or whatever the Mac version of dependencies are.

If not, what's the best way to completely uninstall an application like itunes or safari or something?

for a lot of apps, just dragging them to the thrash will do the trick.
i use this to remove app, gets rid of a few extra preference files etc, instead of just the app itself.
http://www.freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/

having said that i've never tried uninstalling iTunes or Safari,
reckon that might be troublesome on Mac and might be more hassle than its worth especially if you've an iDevice. but if you want came across this on osxdaily http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/06/delete-itunes-mac-os-x/

Colonel Panic

I'd say if you tried to completely uninstall all of Safari or iTunes beyond just trashing the app package, you'd break your install of OS X.

studiorat

So it seems you can remove iTunes and Safari from the applications folder by deleting them in Terminal:

sudo rm -rf iTunes.app/

Useful for networked machines where to date iTunes has been more trouble than it's worth.

I'll give the app cleaner a whirl see how it goes...