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By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:49:56 +0000

Hi Daveg,

Wajig sounds like a great package. I’ve just installed it and will be mucking about with it today.

By: daveg

daveg — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:23:13 +0000

I deal with orphaned packages, I have deporphan & wajig installed. wajig is a fantastic alternate commandline program to agt-* and dpkg. It can even handle sudo for you if the command you're running requires it and you forgot to issue it in the command. Anyway, once I've got that, its just wajig remove-orphans

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:58:36 +0000

That’s a fine method Elvis, thank you very much. Deborphan however clearly picks out orphaned packages for you, so that you can leave one more task to your computer before it finds Sarah Conner.

By: elvis

elvis — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:49:56 +0000

instead of apt-get I use aptitude. and when I want to remove something I just type:
sudo aptitude --purge-unused purge something

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:42:46 +0000

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By: stevejones

stevejones — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:00:07 +0000

I use “debfoster” to manage my packages

By: Aleksandersen

Aleksandersen — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:16:45 +0000

Thanks. Do have a look at Deleting Unwanted Files too.

By: Arky

Arky — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:47:37 +0000

I think ‘orphaner’(a frontend to deborphan) its a neat way of getting rid of uneeded packages.

Cheers

–arky