On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 06:12 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > just a cleanup-related question but on a debian lenny server that > i've inherited, i'm curious to know which packages have no value > whatever and that i can delete. i recall there's a utility that will > identify unused libraries but i'm curious about what else i can > pinpoint that can be removed.
apt-get autoremove will help you remove packages that are not needed by other packages ! > > this system is a web/mail server and, since its IP address is > assigned statically and another system is responsible for all DNS/DHCP > functionality internally, i conclude that i can remove the > dhcp-related packages. that's just one example. this is a bit more "human dependent" ... the packaging system can not tell what packages _you_ don't want... I'dd suggest "dpkg -l" and start looking at the one-by-one trying to identify things you don't want. then "apt-get remove package-i-dont-want" ... but be carefull with the things that will be cascade-removed !!! read the messages carefully before saying the final "Yes" :) cheers j > > any utilities that can help out in this regard? thanks. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1288351191.2397.7.ca...@squeeje.critical.pt
