rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

[Robert Entner]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Felipe Figueiredo <philsf79 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 13:07 +0100, Robert Entner wrote:
>
> > I could also think about something like:
> > apt-get remove <everything-but-ubuntu-desktop>
> >
> > Or is this already possible somehow?
> >
>
> You can do this easilly with aptitude's TUI. Open
>
> sudo aptitude
>
> and navigate in the menu interface to the Installed Packages line. Than
> issue the command key
>
> M
>
> so it will mark ALL installed packages as being automatically installed.
> This will auto select *evertything* as unneeded and for removal. Then
> search for ubuntu-desktop, and unmark it as auto installed with
>
> m
>
> This will keep it installed, as well as it's dependecies, and
> recommendencies.
>
> Then, to commit, use
>
> g
>
> once for the summary of changes, and another time for confirmation.
>
> regards
> FF
>

This seems to be exactly what I wanted. Especially you see then which
packages will be removed and can go back and unmark needed applications.
(This is an assumption as I can only try it when I am back home.)

Thank you very much,
Burt

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