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#9 Re: Getting my computer back - or - where's the processing power? Posted by Anonymous (84.133.xx.xx) on Tue 3 Jan 2006 at 14:47 orphaner -a and aptitude are my favourites for slimming down the amount of installed packages. aptitude can flag automatically (by dependencies) installed packages and will deinstall them if they are not needed any more. Very usefull! orphaner will show all packages which are not installed as dependencies of others. These may be unneeded packages or packages you definitely need or want on your system. There's another thingie for this job, debfoster, I never have used it but I think it could manage a list where you declare some packages as needed, so they would not be presented as candidates to be removed.

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