Re: Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:23:27AM +0100, andy wrote: Dear all As a Debian n00b I enthusiastically gorged myself on the wonders and ease of apt-get. Now, having recovered from my initial over-indulgence, like one considers one's post-festive waistline, I am wanting t

Re: Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:23:27AM +0100, andy wrote: > Dear all > > As a Debian n00b I enthusiastically gorged myself on the wonders and > ease of apt-get. Now, having recovered from my initial over-indulgence, > like one considers one's post-festive waistline, I am wanting to figure > out a w

Re: Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-11 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 00:14 +0100, andy wrote: > I found a whole bunch of files or rather a long-list of entries like: > > 0 0 libpoppler0c2-qt > 0 0 libsdl-pango1 > 0 0 kdenetwork-kfile-plugins > 0 0 libnetcdf3 > 0 0 libtotem-plparser1 > > Am I correct in understanding that these list packa

Re: Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/07 18:14, andy wrote: > Sven Arvidsson wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 07:23 +0100, andy wrote: >> >>> I am wanting to figure out a way to rid myself of packages that I >>> don't use, orphan files, and other random bits of software detritus.

Re: Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-10 Thread andy
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 07:23 +0100, andy wrote: I am wanting to figure out a way to rid myself of packages that I don't use, orphan files, and other random bits of software detritus. If you have popularity-contest installed and have been running it for a while you

Re: Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 07:23 +0100, andy wrote: > I am wanting to figure > out a way to rid myself of packages that I don't use, orphan files, and > other random bits of software detritus. If you have popularity-contest installed and have been running it for a while you can use it to filter out s

Re: Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:53:35PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:07:45AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > ('A') flag. Also, adjust the options so that recommends are marked > > for automatic install. > > Did you mean "not" marked? Yes, sorry. Not marked for

Re: Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:07:45AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > ('A') flag. Also, adjust the options so that recommends are marked > for automatic install. Did you mean "not" marked? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstei

Re: Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
andy wrote: Dear all As a Debian n00b I enthusiastically gorged myself on the wonders and ease of apt-get. Now, having recovered from my initial over-indulgence, like one considers one's post-festive waistline, I am wanting to figure out a way to rid myself of packages that I don't use, orpha

Re: Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:23:27AM +0100, andy wrote: > Dear all > > As a Debian n00b I enthusiastically gorged myself on the wonders and > ease of apt-get. Now, having recovered from my initial over-indulgence, > like one considers one's post-festive waistline, I am wanting to figure > out a w

Re: Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/07 01:23, andy wrote: > Dear all > > As a Debian n00b I enthusiastically gorged myself on the wonders and > ease of apt-get. Now, having recovered from my initial over-indulgence, > like one considers one's post-festive waistline, I am wantin

Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-09 Thread andy
Dear all As a Debian n00b I enthusiastically gorged myself on the wonders and ease of apt-get. Now, having recovered from my initial over-indulgence, like one considers one's post-festive waistline, I am wanting to figure out a way to rid myself of packages that I don't use, orphan files, and