Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

[Chance Platt <chance@sdf.lonestar.org>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Chance Platt wrote:
> > Loris Boillet wrote:
> > > Is there an easy way to get the list or a view of all installed
> > > packages which are not the dependency of something? Or in other words,
> > > packages which don't have any reverse dependencies installed. It looks
> > > like debtree can't do it for instance.
> > deborphan --all-packages
>
> Well, I must say that 'deborphan -a' is only partially successful, 
> shows quite a few packages that I have no idea where they came from.

Then you have bigger problems, no?  :)

This might be because you don't regularly use any method of removing 
leaf packages (deborphan or apt-get autoremove or...).  Maybe try 
verifying with "aptitude why".