Permanent Fave: apt-show-versions -u (Was: help in purging old packages)
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. Just finished running this one AGAIN, and decided to give it its 15 seconds of subject line fame for new users to see. Bob suggested this to another Debian-User member not too long ago. It IMMEDIATELY became a permanent part of my own Top 5 programs. One easy daily to-do list check off for me these days is: $ apt-get update $ apt-show-versions -u Example output from that run a few minutes ago under Sid is: dbus:amd64/sid 1.8.14-2 upgradeable to 1.8.16-1 dbus-x11:amd64/sid 1.8.14-2 upgradeable to 1.8.16-1 libdbus-1-3:amd64/sid 1.8.14-2 upgradeable to 1.8.16-1 libldap-2.4-2:amd64/sid 2.4.40-3 upgradeable to 2.4.40-4 libmp3lame0:amd64/sid 3.99.5+repack1-5 upgradeable to 3.99.5+repack1-6 With each new output, I then hand pick what updates to control what gets updated when. The necessary reason for that is because I'm running at the speed of dialup. You have to control what happens when.. :) Thanks to apt-show-versions, my laptop now runs consistently with: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. k/t to Bob one more time for that great lead. It might have been years, if ever, that I stumbled upon it otherwise. It's been a *perfect*, very *_cognitively friendly_* tool for keeping my computer 100% up to date under my particular set of computing circumstances Hope highlighting this helps someone else near as much as it has helped me.. Happy Debian'ing out there.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks * -- Forwarded message -- From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 15:40:14 -0700 Subject: Re: help in purging old packages To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Comer Duncan wrote: I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still present from etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how can I purge all such packages using dpkg? I can not seem to find how to select just those old packages for purging. Can those who know about this please help? 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. Bob Example: $ apt-show-versions | grep -v -e uptodate -e bpo7 ddrescue 1.14-1 installed: No available version in archive doc-linux-text 2008.08-1 installed: No available version in archive foomatic-filters-ppds 1:4.0.4-3 installed: No available version in archive kerneloops 0.12+git20090217-1 installed: No available version in archive libarchive1 2.8.4.forreal-1+squeeze2 installed: No available version in archive libdb4.8 4.8.30-2 installed: No available version in archive liblzma2 5.0.0-2 installed: No available version in archive libmozjs10d 10.0.12esr-1 installed: No available version in archive libnotify1 0.5.0-2 installed: No available version in archive libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-4squeeze14 installed: No available version in archive linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-48squeeze3 installed: No available version in archive powernowd 1.00-1.1 installed: No available version in archive python2.5 2.5.5-11 installed: No available version in archive python2.5-minimal 2.5.5-11 installed: No available version in archive python3-dvdvideo 0.1 installed: No available version in archive python3.1 3.1.3-1 installed: No available version in archive python3.1-minimal 3.1.3-1 installed: No available version in archive sun-java6-bin 6.26-0squeeze1 installed: No available version in archive sun-java6-jre 6.26-0squeeze1 installed: No available version in archive -- 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-kDi6GMU1uhwtNZFkheq2zNTaDL0=mgekq1d-sjdd6m...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Permanent Fave: apt-show-versions -u (Was: help in purging old packages)
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: ... One easy daily to-do list check off for me these days is: $ apt-get update $ apt-show-versions -u this list includes things you've held or pinned. since you are on dialup have you tried debdelta (and explicitly debdelta-upgrade)? it helps at times. even now that i have a faster connection i still use it when i see the MB of updates is more than a few. songbird -- 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/scupqb-5n3@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de
Re: help in purging old packages
On Vi, 09 ian 15, 16:54:39, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 11:23:17AM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: Hi, I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still present from etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how can I purge all such packages using dpkg? I can not seem to find how to select just those old packages for purging. Can those who know about this please help? aptitude search '?narrow(?installed,?not(?archive(^stable$)))' If you are satisfied with the result replace 'search' with 'purge'. If you want to purge all packages which are installed and installable, but where the version is the same as in an earlier release... that's probably going to need some scripting :) I must be misunderstanding something, but why would anyone want to remove those? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: help in purging old packages
I used to :/usr/lib$ ls -1 | sort and used eyes to pick up these packages to purge. On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Comer Duncan comer.dun...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still present from etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how can I purge all such packages using dpkg? I can not seem to find how to select just those old packages for purging. Can those who know about this please help? Thanks. -- 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/CAG9cJmmuOQnwpTqgqB=soYm4-yfvEe=wsrk7iipz75rrtpy...@mail.gmail.com
Re: help in purging old packages
Comer Duncan wrote: I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still present from etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how can I purge all such packages using dpkg? I can not seem to find how to select just those old packages for purging. Can those who know about this please help? 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. Bob Example: $ apt-show-versions | grep -v -e uptodate -e bpo7 ddrescue 1.14-1 installed: No available version in archive doc-linux-text 2008.08-1 installed: No available version in archive foomatic-filters-ppds 1:4.0.4-3 installed: No available version in archive kerneloops 0.12+git20090217-1 installed: No available version in archive libarchive1 2.8.4.forreal-1+squeeze2 installed: No available version in archive libdb4.8 4.8.30-2 installed: No available version in archive liblzma2 5.0.0-2 installed: No available version in archive libmozjs10d 10.0.12esr-1 installed: No available version in archive libnotify1 0.5.0-2 installed: No available version in archive libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-4squeeze14 installed: No available version in archive linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-48squeeze3 installed: No available version in archive powernowd 1.00-1.1 installed: No available version in archive python2.5 2.5.5-11 installed: No available version in archive python2.5-minimal 2.5.5-11 installed: No available version in archive python3-dvdvideo 0.1 installed: No available version in archive python3.1 3.1.3-1 installed: No available version in archive python3.1-minimal 3.1.3-1 installed: No available version in archive sun-java6-bin 6.26-0squeeze1 installed: No available version in archive sun-java6-jre 6.26-0squeeze1 installed: No available version in archive signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: help in purging old packages
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
Re: help in purging old packages
On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 11:23:17AM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: Hi, I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still present from etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how can I purge all such packages using dpkg? I can not seem to find how to select just those old packages for purging. Can those who know about this please help? If you want to purge all packages which have been uninstalled but for which configuration remains: aptitude purge ?config-files If you want to purge all packages which are installed but which no longer have a candidate in debian: aptitude purge ?obsolete If you want to purge all packages which are installed and installable, but where the version is the same as in an earlier release... that's probably going to need some scripting :) Thanks. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: help in purging old packages
If you want to purge all packages which have been uninstalled but for which configuration remains: aptitude purge ?config-files If you want to purge all packages which are installed but which no longer have a candidate in debian: aptitude purge ?obsolete If you want to purge all packages which are installed and installable, but where the version is the same as in an earlier release... that's probably going to need some scripting :) Also a good way: Install package deborphan, then run aptitude purge `deborphan --guess-all`. Be carefull, what it wants do deinstall. However, I am using it regularly and it did not deinstall accidently a package, I did not want to be deinstalled. Ok, might be, I was lucky. If it does, I would just reinstall it. I suggest, just to take a look and then decide for yourself. Best regards Hans signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
help in purging old packages
Hi, I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still present from etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how can I purge all such packages using dpkg? I can not seem to find how to select just those old packages for purging. Can those who know about this please help? Thanks.
Re: help in purging old packages
On 09/01/15 11:23 AM, Comer Duncan wrote: Hi, I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still present from etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how can I purge all such packages using dpkg? I can not seem to find how to select just those old packages for purging. Can those who know about this please help? Thanks. Check out aptitude autoclean and aptitude clean. Or you can install deborphan. -- 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/54b04b87.1020...@torfree.net
