On Friday 2009 January 23 14:42:30 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? Aptitude should automatically do that. It's possible that it thinks these packages are "manually" installed. To fix that: aptitude markauto libxfce4mcs-manager3 libxfce4util4 $etc If that doesn't suggest packages to be removed, perhaps those packages are actually depended on. You might try: aptitude search '~Rlibxfce4mcs-manager3' to see what packages depend on libxfce4mcs-manager3, but the CUI for aptitude will probably be more useful if you have to hunt down many dependencies. Finally, you can always: aptitude purge libxfce4mcs-manager3 libxfce4util4 $etc and aptitude will inform you if other packages will need to be removed due to missing dependencies. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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