On 1/10/15, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > > If you are an apt-get command line person (like I am) instead of the > aptitude methods already mentioned then you can use apt-show-versions > to show you what is installed but no longer has an install candidate. > > apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate > > Packages that match what are in the archive say "uptodate". The grep > -v removes those lines. What are left are all of the other > interesting packages. I will include a list from a system of mine for > an example. (And I guess I have some cleaning to do on my system.) > > With the list in hand you can then use judgement and purge them off.
* I like it! * When I first finally "bought into" the whole package deal (versus rolling your own via compiling), I was using graphical interface. You could visually flip through then toggle (via clicking checkboxes) what packages to upgrade. Moving (permanently) to command line to perform those actions, I lost that ability and just never pursued whether it even existed in that [realm]. All you'd see there was yadda number of packages need upgraded without knowing what all they were. So I just installed your suggested apt-show-versions then ran the command you (also) suggested. Zip. Blank. Zero. Yay! Then I got to thinking. Been seeing things about things being frozen and other about mirrors playing catchup *TODAY* so I ran apt-get update then ran apt-show-versions again. 40. All presented in the format of: apt/wheezy upgradeable from 0.9.7.9+deb7u6 to 0.9.7.9+deb7u7 And as a text list that I can see as a whole to be able to pick through. That matters tremendously because this is all being done on dialup. You only get to do basically one notable action at a time so you have to orchestrate accordingly to get the most bang out of time spent in front of the screen.. This is a PERFECT tool for that. :) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks * -- 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/cao1p-kcszomwbkhu77cl5omwk8ezgwu3uysue7gzmpvxvy7...@mail.gmail.com