Re: [PLUG] Gutsy

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:21:42 -0400
> From: "Chad Waters" <chad@chadwaters.com>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Gutsy
>
> Wow, check out deborphan. It will help you clean up old obsolete
> libraries left behind after all those upgrades.
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deborphan
> http://debaday.debian.net/2007/10/21/deborphan-find-packages-you-dont-want/

See also: apt-get autoremove

But be a little careful, especially with 'deborphan -a'.

If you have installed anything outside of the packaging system, you 
might have had to install supporting libs that 'deborphan' may list. 
I've also seen things like build-essential, localepurge, picasa (& 
wine), stellarium and many more show up when trying 'deborphan -a.' 
Perhaps those things have no dependencies, but I still installed them on 
purpose and want them...

I don't recall ever having a problem using just plain 'deborphan' and 
'apt-get autoremove' but I'd personally avoid 'deborphan -a' and it 
might not hurt to log what you did and when you did it...


On a similar topic, 'localepurge' is pretty cool.  Note it's in 
"Universe" so you may have to fiddle with your /etc/apt/sources.list (or 
enable it via the GUI).  In a nutshell it "removes superfluous locale 
data" thus freeing up disk space.  Before you dismiss that as "disk is 
cheap" consider also a) running on old hardware (which I do a lot) and 
b) backup costs.  The laptop I noted at the start of this thread has a 
16G disk, of which 10G is used...

Later,
JP
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