Rodolfo Medina wrote on 12/04/16 12:54:
> Jörg-Volker Peetz writes:
>> aptitude -F '%p %I %d' --sort installsize search '~i'
>
>
> What about reverse (descending) installsize order?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rodolfo
>
For that purpose, the unix command "tac" comes handy
aptitude -F '%p %I %d' --s
Jörg-Volker Peetz writes:
> Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 12/04/16 10:40:
>> Greg Wooledge wrote on 12/01/16 20:06:
>>> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> P.S. http://wooledge.org/~greg/ds will sort the installed packages by
>>> size for you. As you can see,
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 12/04/16 10:40:
> Greg Wooledge wrote on 12/01/16 20:06:
>> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>>
>> P.S. http://wooledge.org/~greg/ds will sort the installed packages by
>> size for you. As you can see, many of us have been there, done th
Greg Wooledge wrote on 12/01/16 20:06:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
> P.S. http://wooledge.org/~greg/ds will sort the installed packages by
> size for you. As you can see, many of us have been there, done that.
>
Yes, e.g., aptitude can do this sorting (
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> P.S. http://wooledge.org/~greg/ds will sort the installed packages by
> size for you. As you can see, many of us have been there, done that.
>
I would like to mention couple of things
1) You can do this by running dpigs in the debian-good
Greg Wooledge writes:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Suppose that, during months and years, you have installed many packages in
>> your Debian system that you no more want and no more use, and that you want
>> to free some space on disk because your machine i
On 12/1/16, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 30 Nov 2016 at 08:47:21 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> so I'm just as confused as Rodolfo
>> and I think for good reasons.
>
> I don't know whether Rodolfo is still confused after the explanation
> I gave. AFAICT once you realise that manual means "not m
On 11/30/16, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> apt-mark showmanual gives you the complement of apt-mark showauto.
>> The second paragraph of apt-mark's description explains what's meant
>> by "auto". So "manual" doesn't mean what you appear to assume it does,
>> that you were involved in manually selec
On Thu 01 Dec 2016 at 18:38:45 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Curt writes:
>
> > I think in the OP's case having asked for the whole Gnome kit and
> > caboodle upon installation he's got lots of stuff he might not even be
> > aware of necessarily that doesn't fall into the auto category (or the
Speaking of aptitude, it does remove automatically installed package if no other
package depends on it, or recommends it. This behavior can be changed by
configuration entries in /etc/apt/apt.conf, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*, etc.
To show any installed packages that aren't "auto" and which are dependen
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Suppose that, during months and years, you have installed many packages in
> your
> Debian system that you no more want and no more use, and that you want to free
> some space on disk because your machine is old with a small hard di
Curt writes:
> I think in the OP's case having asked for the whole Gnome kit and
> caboodle upon installation he's got lots of stuff he might not even be
> aware of necessarily that doesn't fall into the auto category (or the
> high priority required category either), but that he didn't expressly
On 2016-12-01, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 30 Nov 2016 at 08:47:21 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> > apt-mark showmanual gives you the complement of apt-mark showauto.
>> > The second paragraph of apt-mark's description explains what's meant
>> > by "auto". So "manual" doesn't mean what you
On Wed 30 Nov 2016 at 08:47:21 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > apt-mark showmanual gives you the complement of apt-mark showauto.
> > The second paragraph of apt-mark's description explains what's meant
> > by "auto". So "manual" doesn't mean what you appear to assume it does,
> > that you w
> apt-mark showmanual gives you the complement of apt-mark showauto.
> The second paragraph of apt-mark's description explains what's meant
> by "auto". So "manual" doesn't mean what you appear to assume it does,
> that you were involved in manually selecting it for installation. It
> just mean
Here you have the answer to your own question.
Use apt-mark to mark the packages you want to keep and all "required" packages
as "manual"ly installed. Then mark all other packages as "auto".
Then let
apt-get autoremove
do its work.
After that, use e.g. aptitude to remove remaining configuration
On 11/29/16, David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 29 Nov 2016 at 23:45:51 (+), Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>
>> If I run `apt-mark showmanual', a list of packages is ouput that are
>> supposed
>> to have been manually installed on my system but that actually I don't at
>> all
>> remember ever installing ne
On Tue 29 Nov 2016 at 23:45:51 (+), Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Rodolfo Medina writes:
>
> > When I freshly installed Debian on my present system, I chose Gnome as my
> > Desktop manager, then I switched to Openbox. To free space, now I want to
> > remove all those Gnome packages that I haven't
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