Re: Finding unused Packages

[Ian Smith <ian@beaky.force9.co.uk>]

Here's a little scripts I use, called dep

#!/bin/sh

package=$1

echo ""
dpkg -l | grep " ${package} " && echo ""

if ! dpkg --purge --no-act ${package} 2>&1 | grep depends
then
	echo -n "You can safely purge ${package}, would you like to do so?
[y/n] "
	read j
	echo ""
	case $j in
		[Yy])	dpkg --purge ${package}
			apt-get check;;
		*)	echo "Not doing anything!";;
	esac
fi

echo ""

Easy enough to feed it a list, add error codes for packages with
dependencies etc.  Comments?

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