On Friday 16 November 2007 22:02, David Fox wrote: > On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think OP is looking for aptitude clean or auto-clean. Check the man > > page. It will remove debs that aren't current. or something like that. > > Actually, all that does is to remove either all (clean) or selected > (auto-clean) - selected in the sense that they're debs no longer > available. But it removes the debian packages in > /var/cache/apt/archives, not the actual packages themselves.
[Common scenario elided] I wonder if "deborphan" meets the OP's need? It's a utility that identifies "left over" packages that no other packages depend on. Library packages that meet this description are probably left-overs and can be removed. See <http://packages.debian.org/etch/deborphan> for more details. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]