Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill Wohler wrote: > > OK, my disk filled up today. Ultimately, I'll get a bigger disk, but > > in the short term, I'd like to remove some large, unused packages. Is > > there a tool that gives me a list of installed packages, sorted by > > size? > > grep-dctrl -F Status 'ok installed' /var/lib/dpkg/status -n \ > -s Installed-Size,Package | perl -pe 's/^(\d+)\n/$1 /' \ > | sort -rn | head -20 > > I'd recommend installing debfoster, and running it once. It'll ask you > what packages you mean to have installed, will skip over those that > packages you have installed depend on, and will remove everything else. > And after you've ran it once, it remembers and you can run it again later > with only a few questions asked to clean your system up again after it > gets crufty.
Couldn't popularity-contest be useful as well, provided you have it installed? $ 'popularity-contest | grep '<OLD>' will produce a list of packages you haven't used in a while. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
