Hello Shidai Liu, Welcome to the Debian club!
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 05:14:13PM +0100, Shidai Liu wrote: > How to list all the packages installed in the system and how to list them in > a certain order like from oldest to newest? This could be very covenient > since I don't have much disk space. I'd like to uninstall as many packages > as possible along with its dependencies. dpkg --get-selections will get you a list of packages that are installed, but that's just in alphabetical order. If you didn't clean your package cache the following command will list packages from newest to oldest: ls -lt /var/cache/apt/archives/ [If there are some files in here and you want to save disk space you could easily delete them. The Debian way is by issuing the command 'apt-get clean'.] But I don't understand why the age of a package could be a good argument for removing it. I suggest another approach. Install the packages debfoster and deborphan with apt-get (or whatever package manager you are using): apt-get install debfoster deborphan Short descriptions: debfoster: Install only wanted Debian packages deborphan: Find orphaned libraries Read the docs of these packages and come back with more questions if any come up. Basically these packages help you to keep a trimmed system without unwanted stuff. I think I recommended them on this list a few weeks ago, so you may also want to search there. HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
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