On Sunday 12 September 2004 20:52, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:40:05PM +0100, Tom Wesley wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with > > Google: Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as > > dependencies for packages that have since been removed? > > Just: > > dpkg --remove libwhatever > > This will also work: > > apt-get remove libwhatever > > BUT, > > * dpkg will abort if dependencies are violated (in this case, if you > have stuff installed that uses the library) > > * apt-get will attempt to automatically satisfy dependencies (in this > case, by uninstalling everything that uses the library) > > P.S.: There is a program called aptitude, it is a replacement for > dselect. It supposedly automatically detects when a package that > was installed because of deps is no longer needed and removes it. > Thanks, I was looking for something that could remove all automatically, without me needing to know what they are. I'll look into aptitude for that, just as soon as I can work out why dialog is not displaying the correct characters for the lines etc... ;) -- Tom Wesley <tom@tomaw.org>
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