A step before that maybe, to take further what Slavko proposed, to sort out packages which are dependencies or recommendations of other packages which are not marked "automatically installed". The aptitude command-line search can help here:
$ aptitude search '~i!~M(~R~i|~Rrecommends:~i)' will show any installed packages that aren't auto which are dependencies or recommendations of other packages. From this list you should mark anything you don't care about as automatically installed ("aptitude markauto ..."). This will help the update process a lot. Be aware though that circular depends/recommends prevents all packages in that list to be marked auto. -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/lmv50q$7ja$1...@ger.gmane.org