Hi, i wrote: > > But i am not sure whether the commercial package which i have to keep > > will be preserved with "apt autoremove". > > Is there a way to do a dry run which only tells what would happen if i > > were more courageous ?
Mike Kupfer wrote: > When I use "apt autoremove", I am given a list of proposed removals and > a prompt about whether I want to proceed. Good to know that there are safeguards when i finally remove some of the "obsolete" packages. I wrote: > > How could i get a list of only the automatically installed obsolete > > packages ? > > (I still did not find any documentation about the '~c' or '~o' with > > "apt list".) Max Nikulin wrote: > apt-patterns(7) Wow. What kind of programming language can have inspired the developers to define such a syntax ? But hey, at least there is logic provided. \o/ So i try apt list '?installed ?obsolete ?automatic' This narrows the list from 220 to 192 packages. Even better, i don't have to diff the lists but can see the 28 other obsolete packages by apt list '?installed ?obsolete !?automatic' Among them are "hfsprogs", the self-made kernels, and the commercial package which i need to keep. Next documenation riddle is what the word "local" means in output lines like linux-image-5.10.0-rc2-ts/now 5.10.0-rc2-ts-37 amd64 [installed,local] (I may have missed something in the man pages of dpkg and dpkg-query, but their occurences of the word "local" do not look like related to the info from "apt list".) Have a nice day :) Thomas
