Re: Using deborphan

I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package manager. It automatically delete orphaned packages.

Regards

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 08:19 +0200, Csányi Pál wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I purge the orphaned packages on a Debian system:
> sudo deborphan | less
>
> and then copy / paste to the aptitude search, and then purge in aptitude.
>
> Is there an automated way to do this task out there?
>
> man deborphan and man aptitude dont shows any suggestion about that.
>
> I try:
> sudo deborphan | aptitude purge
>
> but this does nothing.
>
> On this system I purged the X Window system, so there are only the consoles out
> there.
>
>
> Any advice will be appreciated!
>

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