Stephen Irons wrote:
Roy Britten wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 13:55 +1200, Stephen Irons wrote:
Installing other packages from CD or from the archives is very easy.
Uninstalling them is a bit more tricky.
Out of interest, what trouble did you have with uninstalling packages?
Removing a package does not remove dependant packages that become
orphans when the package is removed.
...
I believe a package called 'deborphan' exists to detect orphans, but I
have not tried it. In any case, my ideal installer program would deal
with this.
deborphan is "recommended" with the Synaptic package. It allows you to
filter for orphans within Synaptic, I believe, but isn't "required" as
Synaptic works fine without it.
Perhaps Synaptic is your ideal installer program, after all!
Douglas.
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