On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:07:42AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i installed and afterwards purged netsaint/unstable. However, it > didn't want to go cleanly :-) A lot of files related to this package > remain on the system. For instance there's a aolserver thingie that > gets installed and that is still on the system, symlinks to this > aolserver are still there and so on. Is there a package/utility that > searches the system for files/dirs that don't belong to any package > anymore and then lists or better deletes them? I thought of deborphan > but when i tried it it merely listed a few obsolete libs. Anyway, i > was quite surprised to see the package didn't remove cleanly at all.
You need to run deborphan -a, since it, by default, only lists libraries. Another option is to install things using aptitude. It remember when a package (like aolserver here) is only installed to satisfy a dependency for something else and will remove it when it's no longer needed. In fact, aptitude can be used as a drop in replacement for apt-get. Instead of apt-get install, run aptitude install, etc. Works great for me. Yet another option is debfoster, which will let you select which packages you want installed, and make sure that your ideas stick. -rob
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