Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

The aptitude command offers some help:

$ aptitude search '~c'

searches for packages that were removed but not purged, i.e., their
configuration files are still present;
to get rid of these files order

$ aptitude purge '~c'

Next:

$ aptitude search '~g'

searches for packages not required by any manually installed packages.
If you are sure you want to get rid of them order something like

$ aptitude purge $(aptitude -F "%p" search '~g')

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Regards,
jvp.