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Finding out recommended packages
Posted by fsateler on Wed 30 Apr 2008 at 23:23
Use this aptitude line to find out about all packages that are:
- Automatically installed
- No package depends on it (ie, they are in your computer because someone recommended it).
aptitude search '?and( ?automatic(?reverse-recommends(?installed)), ?not(?automatic(?reverse-depends(?installed))) )'
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Posted by Anonymous (85.22.xx.xx) on Wed 7 May 2008 at 17:42
Interesting, but all I get is:
E: Regex compilation error: Invalid preceding regular expression
Maybe some special characters got eaten by the HTML-O-saurus?
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It appears the etch version of aptitude doesn't handle these long search options, so it thinks the ? is part of a regex. I don't know which version of aptitude is needed. --------
Felipe Sateler
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