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2008-09-13
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On the desktop there is 'deborphan' to remove orphaned packages. Digging through the forum I found this command: that deletes leftover config files:
I haven't tried this myself so I have no idea if this works well. You can see what would be uninstalled with:
so you can delete them manually using dpkg --purge name-of-the-package
Last edited by iamthewalrus; 2008-09-13 at 19:45.
Code:
dpkg --purge $(dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }')
This constructs a list of packages which are removed but still have their configuration files installed (denoted by the ^rc pattern) and passes this list to the package management utility to purge all obsolete files. (source)
Code:
dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }'
Last edited by iamthewalrus; 2008-09-13 at 19:45.
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2008-10-18
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Originally Posted by iamthewalrus
Thanks i free 23.7MB of space. when i got my NIT i start intalling app like crazy and unistall almost all of those app and i realize that i dint have space i was looking for something like this thnaks a lot
On the desktop there is 'deborphan' to remove orphaned packages. Digging through the forum I found this command: that deletes leftover config files:
Code:dpkg --purge $(dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }')
I haven't tried this myself so I have no idea if this works well. You can see what would be uninstalled with:
so you can delete them manually using dpkg --purge name-of-the-packageCode:dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }'
I tried apt-get remove -- purge, apt-get autoremove, and apt-get clean, recovered almost 3MB free