[xubuntu-users] Debophan you were talking about James

[Wybo]

On 2014-06-19 11:34, James Freer wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Wybo wrote:
>> It does not seem to do much more than telling you which packages you can
>> remove.
>> I tried to do that, but then you get in a loop, because afterwards, about the
>> same number of other packages can be removed...
>>
>> --
>> Wybo
> Exactly - just tells you what is an orphan and they can be removed... only
> finds orphan files.  I don't see how you got in a loop I'm afraid.

I'll show you what I did on another pc (I have inserten 2 spaces before the 
output for clarity):

$>deborphan
   libtbb2:amd64
   libots0:amd64
   firefox-globalmenu:amd64
   libloudmouth1-0:amd64
   thunderbird-globalmenu:amd64
   libtiffxx0c2:amd64
   libgoffice-0.10-10:amd64
   libabiword-2.9:amd64
   libtidy-0.99-0:amd64
   libgtkmathview0c2a:amd64
   libkgeomap1:amd64
   libkvkontakte1:amd64
   libmediawiki1:amd64
   libkface-data:all
   liblink-grammar4:amd64
$>sudo apt-get purge $(deborphan|sed 's/:.*//') >>log
$>deborphan
   libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a:amd64
   libgoffice-0.10-10-common:all
   libtiff4:amd64
   libkgeomap-data:all
   libwv-1.2-4:amd64
$>sudo apt-get purge $(deborphan|sed 's/:.*//') >>log
$>deborphan
   libgsf-1-114:amd64
   libgdome2-0:amd64
$>sudo apt-get purge -y $(deborphan|sed 's/:.*//') >>log
$>deborphan
   libgsf-1-common:all
$>sudo apt-get purge -y $(deborphan|sed 's/:.*//') >>log
$>deborphan
$>sudo apt-get autoremove -y
   Reading package lists... Done
   Building dependency tree
   Reading state information... Done
   The following packages will be REMOVED:
     libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libdc1394-22-dev 
libraw1394-dev libswscale-dev
   0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
   After this operation, 14.4 MB disk space will be freed.
   (Reading database ... 258736 files and directories currently installed.)
   Removing libavformat-dev ...
   Removing libavcodec-dev ...
   Removing libswscale-dev ...
   Removing libavutil-dev ...
   Removing libdc1394-22-dev:amd64 ...
   Removing libraw1394-dev:amd64 ...
   Processing triggers for man-db ...
$>deborphan
$>

I'll make a script for this...


-- 
Wybo