Re: Manually installed packages
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 dependencies or
recommendations of other packages, in short, packages that aren't marked "auto"
but could (should?) be, order
aptitude search '~i!~M(~R~i|~Rrecommends:~i)'
Go through this list and, as root, mark the ones you don't need with
aptitude markauto PACKAGE
When done,
aptitude search '~g'
shows what can be purged from the system.
Regards,
jvp.
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