OMEN
12-26-2007, 12:15 PM
It’s worthwhile to do this every now again again on your ubuntu box when you’ve been installing and uninstalling new apps. This will go through and check which packages have been installed that are no longer needed. It will then remove them for you
apt-get autoremove
Output looks like below
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libcommoncpp2-1.5.3-0
The following packages will be REMOVED
libcommoncpp2-1.5.3-0
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 688kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Here you need to select Y to remove these packages
Ubuntu Geek
apt-get autoremove
Output looks like below
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libcommoncpp2-1.5.3-0
The following packages will be REMOVED
libcommoncpp2-1.5.3-0
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 688kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Here you need to select Y to remove these packages
Ubuntu Geek