apt-get log?

mk27 · 07-21-2009, 08:22 AM

I have a small VPS account which uses debian lenny and the basic vim package sucks (no syntax highlighting, etc) so I installed "vim-full", which then installed a whole slew of stuff for the gnome/gtk/gui version, which is obviously pointless since I cannot make use of a GUI on a remote system.

So I used apt-get --purge remove vim-full but this does not get anywhere close to removing the 175mb of stuff that were installed, which I guess makes sense since those are likely to be dependencies for a lot of other things that I can't use.

Now I have a couple of questions:
1) Is there an apt-get log so I can go back and tediously uninstall all that tish? (Lesson: next time pipe output to file) I'm going to google around about the list of installed packages, which must exist, but a log would be great to know about...
2) Does anyone know if there is a vim package without the GUI that doesn't suck, or do I have to build from source?

five minutes later... Wow, I just began removing the stuff one by one starting with dbus and eject (now why would I need that for syntax highlighting ;P) and got this message:

Code:

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
[...long list...]
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

Which I did, and *presto*, 163mb gone -- which since dbus was 10, that should do it! Awesome! Beautiful! Great job with apt-get by debian! I'm a long time fedora user and I gotta say this is much much nicer than "rpm" IMO. Of course I've never bothered with "yum" so maybe that's not fair...I guess I should check that out too (sheepish grin).

Still looks like I'm stuck building vim on the remote system tho and I don't know if there is enough memory there for that...

craigevil · 07-21-2009, 08:30 AM

try doing apt-get autoremove but keep an eye on what it wants to remove.

mk27 · 07-21-2009, 08:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by craigevil

try doing apt-get autoremove but keep an eye on what it wants to remove.

Yup, that happened pretty quick (see my edit of the OP if you're interested).

AlucardZero · 07-21-2009, 08:50 AM

/var/log/dpkg.log

You probably have "vim-tiny" installed. Try installing "vim".

mk27 · 07-21-2009, 09:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlucardZero

/var/log/dpkg.log

You probably have "vim-tiny" installed. Try installing "vim".

That's what I thought at first too but when I did an "apt-cache search vim" there was no vim-tiny, so I figured I needed vim-full. Does apt-cache search only show uninstalled packages?

Anyway, correct you are! So thanks, that saved me some time.

And thanks for the log tip too.

craigevil · 07-21-2009, 10:08 AM

vim Depends: vim-common (= 2:7.2.148-2), vim-runtime (= 2:7.2.148-2), libacl1 (>= 2.2.11-1), libc6 (>= 2.3.4), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.4), libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3), libselinux1 (>= 2.0.59)
Suggests: ctags, vim-doc, vim-scripts

apt-cache search vim
vim - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
vim-addon-manager - manager of addons for the Vim editor
vim-common - Vi IMproved - Common files
vim-dbg - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor (debugging symbols)
vim-doc - Vi IMproved - HTML documentation
vim-gnome - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - with GNOME2 GUI
vim-gtk - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - with GTK2 GUI
vim-gui-common - Vi IMproved - Common GUI files
vim-latexsuite - view, edit and compile LaTeX documents from within Vim
vim-lesstif - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - with LessTif GUI
vim-nox - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
vim-runtime - Vi IMproved - Runtime files
vim-scripts - plugins for vim, adding bells and whistles
vim-syntax-gtk - Syntax files to highlight GTK+ keywords in vim
vim-tiny - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - compact version

knudfl · 07-21-2009, 11:22 AM

1) dpkg log
# cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep "\ installed\ "
The file with the latest packages, installed, is /var/log/dpkg.log
The next file in the 'history' is 'dpkg.log1'
And further back the files are e.g. 'dpkg.log2.gz' and readable
with : zcat /var/log/dpkg.log.2.gz | grep "\ installed\ "
2)
ls -tl /var/lib/dpkg/info/ | less
.....