What is the best practice for un-installing a package with dependencies

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It has been almost a year since I set up my samba share files. I just did a fresh Kubuntu install and have to set up Samba again. I wasn't sure what packages I needed / used last year so I installed a package that I thought would be the needed one.

It wasn't the package so I un-installed it.

When the package installed it said 24 MIB of space would be used but when I un-installed it only 480 kb was removed. I noticed on Muon that there was still installed packages, the dependencies that went along with the original install.

What is the best practice to un-install a package, including the dependencies packages that installed along with it?
 
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Assuming you're using a Debian based system (which I'm sure you said you were in other posts/theads)
Code:
# apt-get autoremove
Look through carefully before hitting 'Y'.

If in doubt, simulate and post the output
Code:
$ apt-get -s autoremove
 

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