removing packages and dependencies

[Scott]

On Monday 02 October 2006 09:18 am, Christopher J. Bottaro
(cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu) spake thusly:

> How to I remove package A and all the packages that package A depends
> on that aren't being used by other packages.
> 
> This is different that "apt-get remove package_A" which removes
> package A and all packages that depend on package A.
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> -- C

The deborphan package can be helpful in this area.

$ sudo apt-get install deborphan
$ man deborphan

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