Hello!

I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system:
sudo deborphan | less

and then copy / paste to the aptitude search, and then purge in aptitude.

Is there an automated way to do this task out there?

man deborphan and man aptitude dont shows any suggestion about that.

I try:
sudo deborphan | aptitude purge

but this does nothing.

On this system I purged the X Window system, so there are only the consoles out
there.


Any advice will be appreciated!

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Csányi Pál wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system:
> sudo deborphan | less
>
> and then copy / paste to the aptitude search, and then purge in aptitude.
>
> Is there an automated way to do this task out there?
>
> man deborphan and man aptitude dont shows any suggestion about that.
>
> I try:
> sudo deborphan | aptitude purge
>
> but this does nothing.
>

aptitude purge $(deborphan)


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Csányi Pál <csanyipal@csanyi-pal.info> writes:

> I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system:
> sudo deborphan | less
>
> and then copy / paste to the aptitude search, and then purge in aptitude.
>
> Is there an automated way to do this task out there?
>
> man deborphan and man aptitude dont shows any suggestion about that.
>
> I try:
> sudo deborphan | aptitude purge
>
> but this does nothing.

You can do

sudo aptitude purge $(deborphan)

, but a better way may be to use orphaner(8), included in the
deborphan package.

Sven


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Hello,

On [Thu, 16.08.2007 08:19], Csányi Pál wrote:
> I try:
> sudo deborphan | aptitude purge

dpkg --purge `deborphan`

executed as root will do the job.

Johannes


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On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 08:19 +0200, Csányi Pál wrote:
> Hello!

Hi,

> I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system:

One line/instruction with "debfoster".
"apt-get autoremove" also does some interesting things.


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> > I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system:
>
> One line/instruction with "debfoster".
> "apt-get autoremove" also does some interesting things.

But not in the Etch with apt version 0.6.xxxx.


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I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager. It
automatically delete orphaned packages.

Regards

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 08:19 +0200, Csányi Pál wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system:
> sudo deborphan | less
>
> and then copy / paste to the aptitude search, and then purge in aptitude.
>
> Is there an automated way to do this task out there?
>
> man deborphan and man aptitude dont shows any suggestion about that.
>
> I try:
> sudo deborphan | aptitude purge
>
> but this does nothing.
>
> On this system I purged the X Window system, so there are only the consoles out
> there.
>
>
> Any advice will be appreciated!
>


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On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:23:12AM +1000, Wei Wang wrote:
> I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager.
> It automatically delete orphaned packages.

What if I'm still using that program? I don't *want* it deleted. Just
because it's not being maintained is no reason to delete it. So long as
it still runs and is useful it should *not* be deleted.

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On 08/16/2007 05:45 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:23:12AM +1000, Wei Wang wrote:
>> I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager.
>> It automatically delete orphaned packages.
>
> What if I'm still using that program? I don't *want* it deleted. Just
> because it's not being maintained is no reason to delete it. So long as
> it still runs and is useful it should *not* be deleted.
>

Then use aptitude to change that program's status to "hold":

aptitude hold gpm




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"Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> writes:

> On 08/16/2007 05:45 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:23:12AM +1000, Wei Wang wrote:
>>> I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package
>>> manager. It automatically delete orphaned packages.
>>
>> What if I'm still using that program? I don't *want* it
>> deleted. Just because it's not being maintained is no reason to
>> delete it. So long as it still runs and is useful it should *not* be
>> deleted.
>>
>
> Then use aptitude to change that program's status to "hold":
>
> aptitude hold gpm

No, this is not what you want. You need to tell aptitude that the
package is "manually installed", which can be achieved by

aptitude unmarkauto gpm

Regards,
Sven


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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:45:01 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:23:12AM +1000, Wei Wang wrote:
>> I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager.
>> It automatically delete orphaned packages.

Yep, second to that, aptitude alone can do the job quite well. No need the
deborphan. For details check out:

aptitude advantages
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/...ude_advantages

> What if I'm still using that program? I don't *want* it deleted. Just
> because it's not being maintained is no reason to delete it. So long as
> it still runs and is useful it should *not* be deleted.

Aha, there are actually two kind of "orphaned packages" here, I guess the
name deborphan and its explanation should be blamed for the confusion. In
fact,

No, aptitude will never delete unmaintained packages. It is not a criteria
at all. The correct saying is that "automatically installed packages will
be uninstalled as soon as they are no longer needed..."

HTH

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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:45:01 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:23:12AM +1000, Wei Wang wrote:
>> I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager.
>> It automatically delete orphaned packages.

Yep, second to that, aptitude alone can do the job quite well. No need the
deborphan. For details check out:

aptitude advantages
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/...ude_advantages

> What if I'm still using that program? I don't *want* it deleted. Just
> because it's not being maintained is no reason to delete it. So long as
> it still runs and is useful it should *not* be deleted.

Aha, there are actually two kind of "orphaned packages" here, I guess the
name deborphan and its explanation should be blamed for the confusion. In
fact,

No, aptitude will never delete unmaintained packages. It is not a criteria
at all. The correct saying is that "automatically installed packages will
be uninstalled as soon as they are no longer needed..."

HTH

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Csányi Pál wrote:
> Is there an automated way to do this task out there?

Try 'orphaner'.

sudo orphaner

Or

sudo orphaner --purge

Bob


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