Synaptic / Apt: Check for unused packages?

[Chanchao]

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 20:24 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:

> > Just the installation/configuration took 6 hours altogether, that was
> > AFTER the downloading last night..
> 
> On a somewhat related topic, the prefered and clearner way to upgrade
> from Breezy to Dapper is with the update-manager.  See for example:
>   http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=14

Tried that first of course, but it couldn't resolve some stuff and then
recommended to run apt-get dist-upgrade.  (Even though I have nothing on
that computer that isn't from the usual repositories: main, restricted,
universe and multiverse.)

Cheers,
Chanchao