On Sunday 26 of June 2005 13:47, fraz wrote: > How can I find libraries etc that were installed as dependencies, but > which currently have no "dependants" installed? IE the package that > caused apt to install them isn't installed anymore. > > I've been apt-getting and removing packages on my system for the last 4 > years. And I suspect there is a lot of unused crud. For future reference > is there a better way to remove packages so the unused dependencies are > also removed? Is "dpkg -P" equivalent to "apt-get remove"?
yup. check package named deborphan out. then - use ncurses based orphaner (with options --guess-all --purge i.e) binary. And... well... hm... let say "dpkg -P" is equivalent to "apt-get remove". regards, -- Lech Karol Pawłaszek <ike> "You will never see me fall from grace..." [KoRn]
