Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
rminal > > > > it does not remove these libs that were installed automatically. > > > > Is there a way to remove these automatically installed packages when > > nothing depends on them any more? > > Hello Countable Infinity (cool name ;-) > > Try >

Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-01-28 Thread Michael Wagner
* Daniel Burrows 28.01.2009 > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:27:13PM +0100, Michael Wagner > was heard to say: > > aptitude --purge-unused purge xfce4-terminal > > > > It's documented in the man page of aptitude. > > All that does is cause programs which are already being removed > because the

Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 05:06:54PM +0100, Michael Wagner was heard to say: > * Daniel Burrows 28.01.2009 > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:27:13PM +0100, Michael Wagner > > was heard to say: > > > > aptitude --purge-unused purge xfce4-terminal > > > > > > It's documented in the man page of apt

Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-01-28 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 09:23 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 05:06:54PM +0100, Michael Wagner > was heard to say: > > From "man aptitude" > > > > --purge-unused > >Purge packages that are no longer required by any installed > > package. This is equivalent to passing

Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-01-28 Thread John Hasler
Richard writes: > My context was that I needed to add a package to a machine that I'm not > the primary admin for, and didn't want to go removing (or unmarking-auto) > packages from a machine I don't fully understand the purpose of. Why not just 'apt-get install '? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSC

Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:37:34AM +1300, Richard Hector was heard to say: > Yep, I found that confusing too. What _I_ was looking for, though > (apologies for the thread hijack), was a way to say: "Don't remove those > unused packages at this time". > > Is there an easy way to do that? $ aptit

Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-01-31 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 19:28 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:37:34AM +1300, Richard Hector > was heard to say: > > Yep, I found that confusing too. What _I_ was looking for, though > > (apologies for the thread hijack), was a way to say: "Don't remove those > > unused pac

Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-02-02 Thread Aneurin Price
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 05:06:54PM +0100, Michael Wagner > was heard to say: >> * Daniel Burrows 28.01.2009 >> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:27:13PM +0100, Michael Wagner >> > was heard to say: >> >> > > aptitude --purge-unused purge xfc

I've got a corrupt filesys. How do I check integrity of all installed packages?

2001-06-12 Thread oivvio polite
some services want come up. I know for sure that some symlinks disappeared and I suspect that some files are gone or corrupt. Is there an dpkg or apt trick to go through all installed packages, check their integrity and reinstall any files that need it? -- oivvio polite cell +46 (0)709 30 40 30 /

Re: I've got a corrupt filesys. How do I check integrity of all installed packages?

2001-06-14 Thread oivvio polite
Found the answer over at http://www.debianhelp.org I did all this as root. Clean out the package cache. Since I had suffered a filesystem corruption I couldn't trust the files in /var/cache/apt/archives to be ok. apt-get clean Find installed packages dpkg --get-selections | gr

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