Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?

[Matej Cepl <ceplm@seznam.cz>]

Eric Cooper wrote:
>     #!/bin/bash
> 
>     for deb in /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb; do
> pkg=$(dpkg-deb -f $deb Package)
> if ! dpkg-query -Wf '${Status}' $pkg | grep -q ' installed'; then
> echo $pkg: not installed
> # uncomment this to remove it ...
> # rm $deb
> fi

Thanks. There is now wish for this in BTS (bug# 340444).

Matej

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