not used package finder

darkleaf · 10-10-2004, 02:37 PM

I noticed my installation is getting larger and larger with a lot of files I don't use and forgot to uninstall and even worse dependencies. Is there a program out there that searches for packages that aren't used. I hope for something that can search by date and that I don't have to know what I'm searching for in advance.

mmarshall · 10-10-2004, 03:48 PM

I don't know of any.

My solution is to run KDirStat, in order to get an overview as to what is taking up space.

Once, my home directory was being eaten up. I found that I had a program that was spitting out a horrendous about of logs. There were a few 1GB log files in my home!

MWM

darkleaf · 10-11-2004, 02:24 AM

Is that a kde program? I'm using fluxbox and I'd rather not have 100s of MBs of libraries I only use for a little search tool on my computer.

theYinYeti · 10-11-2004, 02:34 AM

If you're using Mandrake, there is a program that will find the "usused" packages, that is: packages that are not needed by any other packages. It is called something like "urpmi_find_leaves".

Any package pointed out by this program can safely be deleted (urpme), unless it is needed by a NON-packaged program (something you compiled yourself).

Yves.

darkleaf · 10-11-2004, 02:40 AM

I'm running debian look at the small profile under my name