Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?
On Friday 23 January 2009 21:22:40 Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Fri January 23 2009 01:08:49 pm 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. Could you please check your aptitude >
> > options > preferences and confirm which option it is?
>
> It's under dependency handling.
>
> In aptitude press F10, then goto options, then in the preferences..
In my version of aptitude (0.4.11.11), the list called up by F10 has
no "options" to go to.
??
Lisi
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