http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r11496614 en Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:23:50 EDT Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:23:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11499580 Caphead : ahh deborphan is rather nice thanks for the heads up!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11499580 Mon, 04 Oct 2004 16:27:09 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11499167 deblin : Another thing you can do to clean your system is to use deborphan to find so-called "orphan packages" - e.g. packages that have been replaced by another package or were incorporated into another package. This is more common for unstable/testing, but can happen in stable as well.

You can then run `deborphan` and look at the list to see what you can remove by inspection, or do something like:

apt-get remove --purge `deborphan`

Hope that helps.
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apt-get remove --purge ignorance]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11499167 Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:39:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11496844 Caphead : ok thanks seems i did stumble across that command and have executed it.. just hoped it was going to clean a little more than just about 100megs

thanks again!

edit: was wondering exactly what the "apt-get clean" does then ?

clean - Erase downloaded archive files
autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files

hrmm]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11496844 Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:24:48 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11496755 yazdzik : Dear Cap,
To get rid of archived files, the command is apt-get autoclean.
Debian writers have a peculiar sense of the English language.

Best,
M
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to clean up all the leftover files/packages that "apt-get install" leaves after installing new software? with limited hdd space i would like to keep tabs on how to get rid of all the extra files and junk with this deb system.
Thanks in advance]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11496614 Mon, 04 Oct 2004 09:45:58 EDT