Re: Old packages between upgrades
Unfortunately, it's hard to catch those old libraries and cruft. I know
at least two programs that are helpful. 'deborphan' and 'cruft'. I've
had good luck with deborphan identifying unused libs. Careful though,
just don't remove everything it lists ;) I haven't really used cruft
...
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:31:25PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question about upgrading the system.
>
> When I upgraded some time ago from slink to potato and then woody, I
> had a package, ncurses3.4 installed on the system... This package is
> <really> old, but it's not replaced with libncurses4 or
> libncurses5. So, I simply erased it without any dependency problem.
>
> My question is that how can all packages with the same problem as this
> be removed between upgrades ? Some are old or obsolete and the system
> doesn't requires them any more, but when you have -a lot- of packages
> installed, it is impossible to find which of this are.
>
> Thanks.
>
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>
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> Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <jmmv@mail.com>
> Running Debian GNU/Linux woody
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