[RESOLVED]Re: JRE

[Tony Arnold]

John,

John Dangler wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 05:51 -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
>> You know what's funny; I tried the update-alternatives and found two
>> versions that I didn't want on my system (they were installed as
>> dependencies as I was testing out programs), deleted those and now
>> running java -version from anywhere just works! 8-) 
>>
>> <grin>  Doing tech support can help more than just other people it
>> seems ;)
> That's also a possibility.  I'm trying to find a database modeling tool,
> as well as an application framework for my desktop box at the moment, so
> I've probably got some orphans out there as well...
> I seem to recall seeing some utility or other that would go through
> ubuntu and identify all of those, but I can't recall where I read it...
> (I should have grabbed it while I was reading about it)

There is the deborphan command which you need to install (you do on
Dapper at least). It's in a package called deborphan, believe it or not.

Run the deborphan command and it will give you a list of packages which
nothing else depends on. You can use that list to remove unwanted packages.

I would check the list first, as it apparently is not completely accurate.

Regards,
Tony.
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