Re: Weeding

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

> Bill Wohler wrote:
> >   OK, my disk filled up today. Ultimately, I'll get a bigger disk, but
> >   in the short term, I'd like to remove some large, unused packages. Is
> >   there a tool that gives me a list of installed packages, sorted by
> >   size? 
> 
> grep-dctrl -F Status 'ok installed' /var/lib/dpkg/status -n \
> 	-s Installed-Size,Package | perl -pe 's/^(\d+)\n/$1 /' \
> 	| sort -rn | head -20
> 
> I'd recommend installing debfoster, and running it once. It'll ask you
> what packages you mean to have installed, will skip over those that
> packages you have installed depend on, and will remove everything else.
> And after you've ran it once, it remembers and you can run it again later
> with only a few questions asked to clean your system up again after it
> gets crufty.

Couldn't popularity-contest be useful as well, provided you have it
installed?

$ 'popularity-contest | grep '<OLD>'

will produce a list of packages you haven't used in a while.

-- 
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>


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