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#8 Re: Getting my computer back - or - where's the processing power? Posted by Anonymous (66.69.xx.xx) on Sun 1 Jan 2006 at 23:15 >> Something which gives a concrete method to remove packages (orphaned??) For debian, there are two excellent programs for this: deborphan and debfoster at the commandline, (oh first you'll need obviously to apt-get install deborphan), just type "deborphan". It will use dpkg to determine which installed packages are orphaned. debfoster (without arguments) will go through all the packages with the most dependencies and ask you if you want to keep them. both programs require root privileges
For debian, there are two excellent programs for this: deborphan and debfoster
at the commandline, (oh first you'll need obviously to apt-get install deborphan), just type "deborphan". It will use dpkg to determine which installed packages are orphaned.
debfoster (without arguments) will go through all the packages with the most dependencies and ask you if you want to keep them.
both programs require root privileges
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