Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 22:41:46 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 24 January 2009 18:49:31 Alan Ianson wrote:
> > On Sat January 24 2009 01:34:04 am Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > 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 wrote:
> > > > > > 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.
> > >
> > > ??
> >
> > That's the same version I have. There is no options over on the right a
> > bit?
>
> Sorry - PEBUAK. I meant that there is (or was :-( ) indeed an options both in
> the menu that is called up and on the toolbar. Both "options" also lead to
> preferences. But there is not an option to remove unused packages
> automatically. Indeed, F10 does remarkably little.
If you cannot find the option in the menu then you can check your
(root's) ~/.aptitude/config directly. The setting is called
"Aptitude::Delete-Unused" and it should default to "true" if it is not
set explicitly in that file (or in /etc/apt/apt.conf or in any of the
files in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/).
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