Given a debian machine, with various debian packages installed by
apt-get, I want to be able to get the list of all installed packages
that are depended on by nothing. If I could easily get that list, then
it would be straightforward to see which, if any, of these leaf
packages I can delete to free up some space.

Is there something which does this or something close?

Thanks.

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bradym@balestra.org

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Hello

Brady Montz (<bradym@balestra.org> ) wrote:

> Given a debian machine, with various debian packages installed by
> apt-get, I want to be able to get the list of all installed packages
> that are depended on by nothing. If I could easily get that list, then
> it would be straightforward to see which, if any, of these leaf
> packages I can delete to free up some space.
>
> Is there something which does this or something close?

deborphan, debfoster

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps-sarge.html

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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Brady Montz wrote:

> Given a debian machine, with various debian packages installed by
> apt-get, I want to be able to get the list of all installed packages
> that are depended on by nothing. If I could easily get that list, then
> it would be straightforward to see which, if any, of these leaf
> packages I can delete to free up some space.
>
> Is there something which does this or something close?

#apt-get -y install deborphan

#deborphan <Enter>

It will give a list of 'orphaned libraries' which you can delete .
Then get rid of them:

#deborphan | xargs dpkg --purge

#apt-get clean

another good package is 'debfoster', it will ask you if you wnat to
'keep <name of package>', you can answer Y or N or P (prune), if you
make a mistake, type U, it will ask you again.

regards

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Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> writes:

> Hello
>
> Brady Montz (<bradym@balestra.org> ) wrote:
> 
>
> deborphan, debfoster
>
> best regards
>  Andreas Janssen

Excellent! Thanks.

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bradym@balestra.org

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