Re: Spring clean

["Pál Csányi" <csanyipal@gmail.com>]

2007/9/29, andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>:
> Can someone recommend a newbie-friendly easy, and safe way of cleaning
> house so that I can retain those packages that I need (and want) but can
> clear out the dust bunnies, etc..?

If you use aptitude, or synaptic then you must to manually select
there packages you want to purge. After you have purged those
packages, you should to purge orphaned packages, I think. For this you
may to use 'sudo aptitude purge $(deborphan)' command.

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