Re: Manually installed packages

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

Speaking of aptitude, it does remove automatically installed package if no other
package depends on it, or recommends it. This behavior can be changed by
configuration entries in /etc/apt/apt.conf, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*, etc.

To show any installed packages that aren't "auto" and which are dependencies or
recommendations of other packages, in short, packages that aren't marked "auto"
but could (should?) be, order

  aptitude search '~i!~M(~R~i|~Rrecommends:~i)'

Go through this list and, as root, mark the ones you don't need with

  aptitude markauto PACKAGE

When done,

  aptitude search '~g'

shows what can be purged from the system.

Regards,
jvp.