On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:33:15PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:54:55AM +0000, andy wrote: > > Hey all > > > > I've stumbled across references to "deborphan" to help maintain my > > system. I've installed it and read the man so think that I have a > > reasonable basic knowledge for what it is meant to do, so have run > > deborphan -zs and have been given a list of files. In theory, I should > > be able to zap these to recycle the electrons and save space. But ... > > how reliable is deborphan in identifying truly-orphaned-safe-to-delete > > files ? > > > > Any body have experience to share? > > > > I tried deborphan and debfoster before I tried aptitude. I found > aptitude far superior. Use aptitude in the UI mode (not the command > line mode), set it to not automatically install recommends or suggests, > and go down the list of installed packages and mark anything that you > don't specifically want installed as automaic (toggle with M and m). > When you think that you have everything right, hit 'g' for go and it > will give you a list of packages to remove (and suggests others but > doesn't select them). If there is anything on this list that you > missed, mark it here as manual. When you're happy, hit 'g' again and it > will remove extraneous packages. > > After this, it will manage the packages with no further detail tweaking > like this. Its great.
I did the same yesterday. It saved me 50+ MB :D Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
