I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager. It automatically delete orphaned packages.
Regards On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 08:19 +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > Hello! > > I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system: > sudo deborphan | less > > and then copy / paste to the aptitude search, and then purge in aptitude. > > Is there an automated way to do this task out there? > > man deborphan and man aptitude dont shows any suggestion about that. > > I try: > sudo deborphan | aptitude purge > > but this does nothing. > > On this system I purged the X Window system, so there are only the consoles > out > there. > > > Any advice will be appreciated! > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]