Re: Wanted: Location of unused packages
Take a look at the popularity-contest package:
DEBIAN PACKAGE POPULARITY CONTEST - Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@debian.org>
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This package contains a script, /usr/sbin/popularity-contest, which
generates a list of the packages installed on your system, in order of
most-recently-used to least-recently-used. The simplest way to use this
information is to help clean up your hard drive by removing unused
packages.
For example,
popularity-contest | grep '<OLD>'
will show you a list of packages you haven't used in a while. Note that
this output isn't totally accurate: some packages appear "old" but you
can't
remove them because other (non-old) packages depend on them. Shared
library
packages are particularly bad this way because it's impossible to tell
when
a library was last used.
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peter karlsson wrote:
>
> Is there a program available that looks at the access times of the various
> installed binaries, and reports on the packages whose binaries hasn't been
> used in the last, say, two months?
>
> Would be a great way to get a list of those "hey, this sounds cool!"
> packages one selected in dselect but never got around to use, because when
> dselect finished running, one had already forgotten what the heck it was
> about.
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