On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:40:05PM +0100, Tom Wesley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with Google:
> Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as dependencies
> for packages that have since been removed?
Just:
dpkg --remove libwhatever
This will also work:
apt-get remove libwhatever
BUT,
* dpkg will abort if dependencies are violated (in this case, if you
have stuff installed that uses the library)
* apt-get will attempt to automatically satisfy dependencies (in this
case, by uninstalling everything that uses the library)
P.S.: There is a program called aptitude, it is a replacement for
dselect. It supposedly automatically detects when a package that
was installed because of deps is no longer needed and removes it.
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