[TAG] removing unwanted packages

[Joydeep Bakshi]

On Saturday 23 Apr 2005 10:51 pm, Pete Jewell wrote:
> On Saturday 23 Apr 2005 17:31, Joydeep Bakshi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > one can check all the installed packages in debian one by one using
> > *synaptic* which is a GUI tool. and from there he can removed all
> > *unwanted* packages means the packages which once required for any
> > compilation or so but no other packages depend on it at present. but is
> > there any particular command which can remove these unwanted packages
>
> Hi Joydeep
>
> The tool you are looking for is called deborphan.  From it's man page:
>
> "It's mainly for finding libraries that no longer have any dependants, and
> can therefore be removed, but you can use it for all the packages if you
> like."

Hi Pete,

thanks a lot for this information. actually I do a lot of experiment with 
different packages in debian, so I really need this *cleaning tool*