Re: Spring clean

From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:14:52 -0400

andy wrote:

Hi all

Even though it is now approaching fall/autumn (in the northern
hemisphere anyway), I am wanting to do some spring cleaning of my hard
drive. In my enthusiasm for Debian's apt-get I have gorged myself on a
load of packages that I probably don't need. One example is multiple
language versions of OOo, but there are likely others too.

Can someone recommend a newbie-friendly easy, and safe way of cleaning
house so that I can retain those packages that I need (and want) but can
clear out the dust bunnies, etc..?

If you are using sid then

sudo apt-get autoremove

otherwise you can try using deborphan.

raju

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