Re: [SOLVED] How to identify obsolete packages
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- Subject: Re: [SOLVED] How to identify obsolete packages
- From: Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>
- Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 21:38:03 +0100
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Stephen Powell wrote on 10/31/2015 17:30:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 11:28:26 -0400 (EDT), Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
>>
>> Here is one way.
>>
>> To identify packages that are no longer present in the archive
>>
>> % apt-show-versions -r . | grep "No available version in archive"
>
> That's what I'm talking about! Thanks! (Although it does require the
> installation of another package: apt-show-versions.)
>
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Solutions were proposed already at least once on this list: see the thread
beginning with https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/01/msg00446.html
Regards,
jvp.
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