On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:43:20PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > [...] > By this I mean, if I install progA it asks me to install libA, libB, > progC, and depenF. Now when I apt-get remove progA, it will just remove > progA. I would like to remove progC and depenF as well, without removing > unused libraries (Since libraries don't bother me, and may interfere > with the programs I've installed from source). > [...] This is why I use aptitude. One can use it with nearly exact the same options as apt-get on the command line. Also it is the officially prefered package management tool since the release of Sarge. From the release notes [0]: "2.1 What's new in the distribution? [...] The sarge version of aptitude is the preferred program for package management from console. It has proven to be better at dependency resolution than apt-get. aptitude supports most command line operations of apt-get. If you are still using dselect, you should also give aptitude a try as frontend for package management. [...]" Anyway, if you want to stick with apt-get so be it. But AFAIK there's no way to let apt-get also remove the dependencies. You have to do that manually. I guess that's why such packages like deborphan and debfoster exist. I prefered debfoster back then. Regards Marcus [0] http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.html
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