How to get rid of an uninstalled program's now-unneeded/un-used dependencies

[Jeff Co]

On 7/15/05, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:19:13PM +0900, Jeff Co wrote:
> > I marked evince, a pdf viewer, for installation (in synaptic). I was 
> told it
> > needed a file that went something like libXYZ. Then I removed evince. I 
> ran 
> > deporphan again, but the list of files was the same. What happened to 
> the
> > dependency synaptic told me that evince needed? How come it wasn't on 
> the list
> > of deborphan?
> 
> Do other programs need libXYZ? 


Well, apparently not. Evince was the latest program I installed. So if my 
logic is correct, since it is the latest program to be installed, and since 
it at this time only, and not any earlier, that synaptic told me libXYZ was 
needed, I conclude that the only progarm that needed libXYZ was evince.
I didn't write down the real name of this libXYZ file, so I can't do the 
reverse depends lookup command (apt-cache show libXYZ) you mentioned.
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