Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Alan Ianson <alianson@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 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?
Can't find any such thing. Could you please check your aptitude >
options > preferences and confirm which option it is?
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