Manually installed packages (was: Uninstalling Gnome)
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
> When I freshly installed Debian on my present system, I chose Gnome as my
> Desktop manager, then I switched to Openbox. To free space, now I want to
> remove all those Gnome packages that I haven't used any more but am not sure
> what of them I may delete without perturbing the system. How can I know?
> More in general, is there a way to know what packages one is not using and so
> can be removed?
If I run `apt-mark showmanual', a list of packages is ouput that are supposed
to have been manually installed on my system but that actually I don't at all
remember ever installing neither do I believe they truly have been nay I'm sure
they haven't... Any people could explain that?
Thanks, Cheers
Rodolfo
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