Re: [SOLVED] How to identify obsolete packages

2015-11-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Stephen Powell wrote on 10/31/2015 17:30: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 11:28:26 -0400 (EDT), Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >> >> Here is one way. >> >> To identify packages that are no longer present in the archive >> >> % apt-show-versions -r . | grep "No available version in archive" > > That's what I

Re: [SOLVED] How to identify obsolete packages

2015-10-31 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 11:28:26 -0400 (EDT), Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >> >> Here is one way. >> >> To identify packages that are no longer present in the archive >> >> % apt-show-versions -r . | grep "No available version in archive" > >

Re: How to identify obsolete packages

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 13:27:19 -0400 (EDT), Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I get aptitude to resolve recommended upgrades just by using the -r > switch on the command line. There's probably a way to do that using > g.u.i. but don't know that one yet. It's been a while now, but IIRC, this works for ins

Re: How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?)

2015-10-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
ebian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?) Resent-Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 14:30:06 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 07:38:25 -0400 (EDT), Chris Bannister wrote:

[SOLVED] How to identify obsolete packages

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 11:28:26 -0400 (EDT), Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Here is one way. > > To identify packages that are no longer present in the archive > > % apt-show-versions -r . | grep "No available version in archive" That's what I'm talking about! Thanks! (Although it does requi

Re: How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?)

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:38:48 -0400 (EDT), "Reco" wrote: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:29:48 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> Does anyone know an easy way to identify obsolete packages without >> using aptitide? > > deborphan --guess-all According to the documentation for deborphan, "deborphan

Re: How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?)

2015-10-31 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > > Does anyone know an easy way to identify obsolete packages without > using aptitide? > Here is one way. To identify packages that are no longer present in the archive % apt-show-versions -r . | grep "No available version in archive"

Re: How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?)

2015-10-31 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 10:29:48 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: > Does anyone know an easy way to identify obsolete packages without > using aptitide? deborphan --guess-all Reco

How to identify obsolete packages (was: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?)

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 07:38:25 -0400 (EDT), Chris Bannister wrote: > > Oh great! They've fixed it. I hated having to "dpkg --purge aptitude" > after a new installation. If you want extra packages, it's just an > apt-get install step away. I used to use aptitude; but I've switched back to using apt