Re: apt-get

[Dai Yuwen <yuwen@micetek.com.cn>]

nate wrote:

> Richard Beri said:
>
> >When I install a program via apt-get, and it installs other support
> >packages along with it, and then I choose to remove this program AND  the
> >packages that came with it.  Is there anyway to automate the
> >removal of this program and its packages instead of removing the
> >packages by hand typing them in one by one?  Or if I choose to remove
> >this program at a later date and close my xterm, I forget what came  with
> >it.
>
>
>
> while I've never used it, deborphan looks like it should show you a list
> of packages that don't have anything depending on them anymore.
>
> nate
You can use this command to see the dependence of a package:

dpkg -p package-name

Then you can remove the packages you don't need.