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

To: Countable Infinity <countableinfinity@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?
From: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:05:31 +0200
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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?
Try running 'aptitude purge'.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor

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