[RESOLVED]Re: JRE

[Tony Arnold]

Michael,

Michael R. Head wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:13 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
>> John,
>> 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.
> 
> Also see gtkorphan. 

I had forgotten about that. Presumably it's a GUI to deborphan. I'm
afraid I'm still a keen fan of the command line!

Regards,
Tony.
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