Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-10 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:53:37 +, Chris Lale wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] You can tell aptitude to purge unused packages: $ man aptitude 2>/dev/null | grep -A3 purge-unused --purge-unused Purge packages that are no longer required

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:53:37 +, Chris Lale wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > >You can tell aptitude to purge unused packages: > > > >$ man aptitude 2>/dev/null | grep -A3 purge-unused > > --purge-unused > > Purge packages that are no longer required by any installed >

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-08 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 22:01:46 +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:25:53PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: [...] Is there also an 'autopurge' option? Not sure how Aptitude behaves on this but you can append --purge of course.

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:35:07PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > [...] > > This is good news, AFAIK aptitude seems to purge the requested > > package but only _removes_ the dependencies. > > > > Guess I will then use plain apt again. > > You can tell aptitude to purge unused packages: > > $ man

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 22:01:46 +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:25:53PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > [...] > > > Is there also an 'autopurge' option? > > > > Not sure how Aptitude behaves on this but you can append --purge of course. > > This > > will remove conf

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:25:53PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > [...] > > Is there also an 'autopurge' option? > > Not sure how Aptitude behaves on this but you can append --purge of course. > This > will remove config files for the removed and automatically removed packages. > [...] This is

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Andrei. Andrei Popescu, 07.02.2007 21:21: > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:01:32 +0100 > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello me. >> >> Mathias Brodala, 07.02.2007 00:59: >>> Marcus Blumhagen, 07.02.2007 00:41: But AFAIK there's no way to let apt-get also remove the depen

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:01:32 +0100 Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello me. > > Mathias Brodala, 07.02.2007 00:59: > > Marcus Blumhagen, 07.02.2007 00:41: > >> But AFAIK there's > >> no way to let apt-get also remove the dependencies. > > > > Not yet. APT 0.7.0 comes with automatic

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello me. Mathias Brodala, 07.02.2007 00:59: > Marcus Blumhagen, 07.02.2007 00:41: >> But AFAIK there's >> no way to let apt-get also remove the dependencies. > > Not yet. APT 0.7.0 comes with automatic dependency removal[0] which should be > equal to what Aptitude offers. And it works like a ch

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hello Marcus. Marcus Blumhagen, 07.02.2007 00:41: But AFAIK there's no way to let apt-get also remove the dependencies. Not yet. APT 0.7.0 comes with automatic dependency removal[0] which should be equal to what Aptitude offers. Regards, Mathias [0] http://packages.q

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:43:20PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > I know most people use Deborphan and Aptitude to remove unused libraries > and programs, but I'm wondering if there is a way to (For apt-get users) > remove unused utilities? > > By this I mean, if I install progA it asks me to in

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-06 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Marcus. Marcus Blumhagen, 07.02.2007 00:41: > But AFAIK there's > no way to let apt-get also remove the dependencies. Not yet. APT 0.7.0 comes with automatic dependency removal[0] which should be equal to what Aptitude offers. Regards, Mathias [0] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt/news

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:43:20PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > [...] > By this I mean, if I install progA it asks me to install libA, libB, > progC, and depenF. Now when I apt-get remove progA, it will just remove > progA. I would like to remove progC and depenF as well, without removing > un

Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-06 Thread Michael Pobega
I know most people use Deborphan and Aptitude to remove unused libraries and programs, but I'm wondering if there is a way to (For apt-get users) remove unused utilities? By this I mean, if I install progA it asks me to install libA, libB, progC, and depenF. Now when I apt-get remove progA, it