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Re: cleaning tips?


  • Subject: Re: cleaning tips?
  • From: magenta <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:52:08 -0800

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:32:12PM -0600, David McKnight wrote:
> I did some installs from fink: GIMP, Nedit, and BlueFish.
> I decided I want to keep GIMP, and get rid of the others, but I have no
> idea how to. I also noticed that my sw folder is something like 317MB.
> Isn't there some stuff like the src/ that I could get rid of? How?

Use dselect or FinkCommander to browse your installed packages and remove
what you don't want.  Alternatively, dpkg -l will give a list of what's
installed, then dpkg --purge (packagename) will remove stuff.  Like, if you
want to get rid of nedit, just do

	dpkg --purge nedit

This won't remove any extraneous library dependencies, though.  At least in
Debian there's a program called deborphan which lists the extraneous
libraries, but I don't know if fink has it.  Basically you just do
something like:

	dpkg --purge `deborphan`

(note the backticks) and it'll remove all the cruft you don't need for your
currently-installed programs.

Some prefer to use apt-get remove instead of dpkg --purge.  I don't think
there's any real difference.

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