Re: unsed .deb packages??
On Friday 16 November 2007 22:02, David Fox wrote:
> On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> > I think OP is looking for aptitude clean or auto-clean. Check the man
> > page. It will remove debs that aren't current. or something like that.
>
> Actually, all that does is to remove either all (clean) or selected
> (auto-clean) - selected in the sense that they're debs no longer
> available. But it removes the debian packages in
> /var/cache/apt/archives, not the actual packages themselves.
[Common scenario elided]
I wonder if "deborphan" meets the OP's need? It's a utility
that identifies "left over" packages that no other packages
depend on. Library packages that meet this description are
probably left-overs and can be removed.
See <http://packages.debian.org/etch/deborphan> for more details.
-- A.
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Andrew Reid / reidac@bellatlantic.net
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