The "cruft" package tries to do this: $ apt-cache show cruft Package: cruft Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 640 Maintainer: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.9.6-0.3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1-2) Filename: pool/main/c/cruft/cruft_0.9.6-0.3_i386.deb Size: 26868 MD5sum: 0bf70a5b082c8f68fabcec2306fcd4b6 Description: Find any cruft built up on your system cruft is a program to look over your system for anything that shouldn't be there, but is; or for anything that should be there, but isn't. . It bases most of its results on dpkg's database, as well as a list of `extra files' that can appear during the lifetime of various packages. . cruft is still in pre-release; your assistance in improving its accuracy and performance is appreciated.
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