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Re: [LUG] Installation on FSFE card on Debian Lenny

 

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:50:59 +0100
Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> -   I wanted to ensure that all my obsolete librarys etc (from using
> apt-get) were removed

deborphan is the tool for that job - remember to use:
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge foo
for each of the listed packages.

Also, remember to use the autoclean option for apt-get to remove
cached .deb files.

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