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Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?



On Fri January 23 2009 12:42:30 pm Countable Infinity wrote:
> When I installed xfce4-terminal, it automatically installed
> libxfce4mcs-manager3, libxfce4util4, etc. But now if I do:
>
> aptitude purge xfce4-terminal
>
> it does not remove these libs that were installed automatically.
>
> Is there a way to remove these automatically installed packages  when
> nothing depends on them any more?

There is a setting in aptitude -> options -> preferences to remove unused 
packages automatically. Is it switched on?


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