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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alexander Skwar</b> <<a href="mailto:listen@alexander.skwar.name">listen@alexander.skwar.name</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi!<br><br>I just installed mplayer on Dapper. Synaptic told me, that some<br>additional packages need to be installed to satisfy the dependencies.
<br>Thus, I installed those as well; packages like liblame0, libungif4g<br>and some more, which I forgot.<br><br>And the "forgot" is the reason why I'm asking now :) I'd like to<br>deinstall mplayer *including* all the depencies which were installed
<br>to meet those requirements.<br><br>How would I do this?<br><br>On Gentoo, I'd (more or less) do it that way, that I'd now do a<br>"emerge --depclean --pretend" and record the result. "--depclean"<br>
shows those packages, which were "once upon a time" installed as<br>a dependency of some other package but are no longer required by<br>any installed package. Well... After I run the "emerge --depclean<br>--pretend", I'd deinstall mplayer and run "emerge --depclean
<br>--pretend" once more. Any new package must've been installed to<br>satisfy dependencies of mplayer.<br><br>Surely I can do something like that with Debian (Ubuntu) as well,<br>can't I? How?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>
Alexander Skwar</blockquote>
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<div>I believe deborphan is what you are looking for. It should show you what packages no longer depend on anything.</div>
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<div>Alternatively, you could poke around in /var/log to find the dpkg log, and see what was installed along with mplayer.</div>
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<div>Hope this helps.</div>
<div>Nik</div>
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