On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:52:41PM +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: > 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. aptitude *should* more or less deal with the orphaned packages already. BUt otherwise, I agree, aptitude is the way to go, through the gui. It takes a little time to dig through it all, but if you can focus on removing higher-level packages, it won't take long to see significant numbers of extraneous libs and supporting packages getting wiped out. A
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