When removing packages using apt-get, the command is "apt-get remove".
As the command to install is "apt-get install", I find myself occasionally
mistakenly typing "apt-get uninstall" to remove packages. It would be useful
therefore if "uninstall" were to be added as a synonym for "remove".

tag 249021 wontfix

in order to maintain simplicity, you only want there to be one way to
do things.  hence providing synonyms for commands is a bad idea.  the
user has a lot of avenues to figure out the correct syntax.  they can
read the man page or search the web.  and i bet they discover "remove"
pretty quickly even if they are used to things being called
"uninstall".  so, i recommend that this issue not be fixed.

Please reconsider marking this as "wontfix".

Apt is the only package manager I use that calls it "remove" instead
of "uninstall". Off the top of my head: pip (Python), brew (macOS),
cargo (Rust), gem (Ruby) and npm (JavaScript) all call it "uninstall".
The only exceptions I can think of are ArchLinux, which uses single
letter flags that I forget and yarn (JavaScript), which uses "remove"
but also uses "add" instead of install, so that makes more sense.

It's also slightly faster when you just installed something to add
"un" to the previous command instead of deleting the whole word and
typing out "remove".

I have been using Ubuntu/Debian for close to 10 years and I just made
this mistake for the umpteenth time this morning, which prompted me to
come looking for this bug.

Control: tag -1 - wontfix

Sure. I've been adding a bunch of undocumented synonyms and spellings
for a while now, so this is fine.

A recent similar complaint from Fedora:
https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/dnf-uninstall/

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha