Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?

[Matej Cepl]

Eric Cooper wrote:
> Here's an alternative way to do it, by scanning the .deb files and
> seeing if they're already installed or not.  (It's in bash, but should
> be easy to convert to Python etc.):
> 
>     #!/bin/bash
> 
>     for deb in /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb; do
> pkg=$(dpkg-deb -f $deb Package)
> if ! dpkg-query -Wf '${Status}' $pkg | grep -q ' installed'; then
> echo $pkg: not installed
> # uncomment this to remove it ...
> # rm $deb
> fi
>     done

Except that it is incredibly slow (running dpkg-query 1405-times in my
case). The attached version does the same, but is IMHO much better (and
yes, I prefer Python to complicated bash :-)).

Best,

Matej

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