Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete" packages ?
Am 28.05.2024 um 20:38:46 Uhr schrieb Thomas Schmitt:
> today i upgraded a Debian 11 system to 12 and am now scratching my
> head over the final steps as described in
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#purge-removed-packages
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#obsolete
Packages have dependencies. Those will be marked as automatically
installed. They can be removed if no other package depends on them.
You can do that with the autopurge/autoremove apt command.
Be aware: If you install software beyond apt/dpkg that depends on files
in installed packages, you need to mark them as manually installed to
avoid being removed by autoremove. dpkg doesn't care about stuff
manually installed.
> What does "[residual-config]" mean ?
Packages include system-wide configuration files. If packages are
removed, this configuration will not be deleted. You need to purge such
packages to remove it.
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Marco
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