Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?
On Friday 23 January 2009 21:08:49 Countable Infinity wrote:
> 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.
+1
Lisi
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