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- StrawberryFrog, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14rodrigo74: so the server was "being negligent" then?
neglect was the right word. Point and laugh at the original poster. - rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12Neglection Neg*lec"tion, n. [L. neglectio.]
The state of being negligent; negligence.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - bitswapper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Be careful - this procedure will prompt to remove things like less, bison, flex, kernel-package, kernel-headers, apache2, and a host of other things. It also wanted to remove mrtg-contrib but not mrtg (which kind of makes sense from the script's point of view). You just have to be careful. Granted, it will clean up cruft packages (like reverse-polish calculator)
- wakkow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The article talks of cleaning up no longer needed dependencies, not how to update the system.
- tropican8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In the comments on the site someone mentioned using deborphan instead, that in my mind is a simpler alternative. There's even a GTK+ frontend caller orphaner if memory serves. At one point it was in a package with several apt tools, so in a way, aplusbi is right. Though I don't think he gave it that much thought.
- bhousel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah deborphan works pretty well.. Here is what I run to backup the package list, then mark the deinstalled and orphaned packages for removal..
dpkg --get-selections > /etc/dpkg/backup.list
dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | sed -e 's/deinstall/purge/' | dpkg --set-selections
deborphan --guess-all | sed -e 's/$/tpurge/' | dpkg --set-selections
dpkg --get-selections | grep purge - CurtHowland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use "dselect".
- teknotant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I am pretty new to Linux and have just been using apt-get. I guess this info is good for beginners but its still pretty general information. This is a tip that should be appended to a list of sorts for beginners.
- r3zonance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The neglection definition probably came from a US dictionary, like Burglarize (which should just be burgle).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2neglect my mommy punkhead
rm -rf / - Modulo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1PUNCTU-F*CKING-ATE!!!!
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1deborphan ;)
- CurtHowland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hey! I _like_ RPN calculators.
I would really like it if there were a graphical software calculator that reproduced my HP 15c. 20 years old and it still works great. Can't say that about my TRS-80.
A soft calc could display the entire stack(!) and have an arbitrary stack size and precision, which are the only improvements I can think of. - volcompimp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4A tip on why you should use an apt front end like aptitude? Why the hell is this on the front page?
nm... Looks like Kevin dugg it for whatever reason. - rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Yeah I agree that "neglect" is the right word in the header, but I couldn't help answering the grammar police above :)
- Garfunkel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I now use SMARTPM, really nice because it works similar to aptitude (dependency handling and such) and also separates lists in the terminal/konsole nicely.
- z3ncoder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Pacman (Arch Linux's package manager) has similar functionality:
'pacman -Qe' displays all packages explicitly installed, and
'pacman -Rcs pkgname' removes package and all unneeded dependencies.
Bash-scripting and apt-get, however, are friggin' powerful. - aplusbi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
You're done. - r3zonance, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7WTF is "neglection"?
I think the word you were looking for was "neglect". - venkat23, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0how come this article come to front page may be group of digg friends started digging
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