On Ma, 03 apr 12, 10:40:45, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/04/12 08:16, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Yes, I only use aptitude from command line for things such as > > > > aptitude purge ~o > > > > which are impossible to achieve with apt-get alone and not easy even if > > you combine it with other tools. > > # apt-get --purge autoremove Definitely not the same thing. > OR (belt and corset) > > # apt-get --purge remove `deborphan`; apt-get --purge autoremove I remember deborphan had several modes of operation, but the main one was still the equivalent of apt-get's autoremove. To explain, aptitude's ~o pattern stands for "orphaned", that is installed packages that are not available from any of the *currently* configured sources: it may be the package has been dropped from the archive (can happen for unstable and testing, very seldom also for stable) or you removed the corresponding deb line your from sources.list. apt-show-versions can be used to generate the package list for apt $ apt-show-versions | grep libxmlrpc-ruby libxmlrpc-ruby 4.2 installed: No available version in archive but you have do some piping first. Hope this explains, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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