Re: Manually installed packages

Rodolfo Medina wrote on 12/04/16 12:54: > Jörg-Volker Peetz writes: >> aptitude -F '%p %I %d' --sort installsize search '~i' > > > What about reverse (descending) installsize order? > > Thanks, > > Rodolfo > For that purpose, the unix command "tac" comes handy aptitude

Re: Manually installed packages

Jörg-Volker Peetz writes: > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 12/04/16 10:40: >> Greg Wooledge wrote on 12/01/16 20:06: >>> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> >>> P.S. http://wooledge.org/~greg/ds will sort the installed packages by >>> size for you.

Re: Manually installed packages

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 12/04/16 10:40: > Greg Wooledge wrote on 12/01/16 20:06: >> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> >> P.S. http://wooledge.org/~greg/ds will sort the installed packages by >> size for you. As you can see, many of us have been there, done

Re: Manually installed packages

Greg Wooledge wrote on 12/01/16 20:06: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > P.S. http://wooledge.org/~greg/ds will sort the installed packages by > size for you. As you can see, many of us have been there, done that. > Yes, e.g., aptitude can do this sorting

Re: Manually installed packages

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > P.S. http://wooledge.org/~greg/ds will sort the installed packages by > size for you. As you can see, many of us have been there, done that. > I would like to mention couple of things 1) You can do this by running

Re: Manually installed packages

Greg Wooledge writes: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Suppose that, during months and years, you have installed many packages in >> your Debian system that you no more want and no more use, and that you want >> to free some space on disk

Re: Manually installed packages

On 12/1/16, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 30 Nov 2016 at 08:47:21 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: >> so I'm just as confused as Rodolfo >> and I think for good reasons. > > I don't know whether Rodolfo is still confused after the explanation > I gave. AFAICT once you

Re: Manually installed packages

On 11/30/16, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> apt-mark showmanual gives you the complement of apt-mark showauto. >> The second paragraph of apt-mark's description explains what's meant >> by "auto". So "manual" doesn't mean what you appear to assume it does, >> that you were

Re: Manually installed packages

On Thu 01 Dec 2016 at 18:38:45 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Curt writes: > > > I think in the OP's case having asked for the whole Gnome kit and > > caboodle upon installation he's got lots of stuff he might not even be > > aware of necessarily that doesn't fall into the auto

Re: Manually installed packages

Speaking of aptitude, it does remove automatically installed package if no other package depends on it, or recommends it. This behavior can be changed by configuration entries in /etc/apt/apt.conf, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*, etc. To show any installed packages that aren't "auto" and which are

Re: Manually installed packages

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:38:45PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Suppose that, during months and years, you have installed many packages in > your > Debian system that you no more want and no more use, and that you want to free > some space on disk because your machine is old with a small hard

Re: Manually installed packages

Curt writes: > I think in the OP's case having asked for the whole Gnome kit and > caboodle upon installation he's got lots of stuff he might not even be > aware of necessarily that doesn't fall into the auto category (or the > high priority required category either), but that he

Re: Manually installed packages

On 2016-12-01, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 30 Nov 2016 at 08:47:21 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: >> > apt-mark showmanual gives you the complement of apt-mark showauto. >> > The second paragraph of apt-mark's description explains what's meant >> > by "auto". So

Re: Manually installed packages

On Wed 30 Nov 2016 at 08:47:21 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > apt-mark showmanual gives you the complement of apt-mark showauto. > > The second paragraph of apt-mark's description explains what's meant > > by "auto". So "manual" doesn't mean what you appear to assume it does, > > that you

Re: Manually installed packages

> apt-mark showmanual gives you the complement of apt-mark showauto. > The second paragraph of apt-mark's description explains what's meant > by "auto". So "manual" doesn't mean what you appear to assume it does, > that you were involved in manually selecting it for installation. It > just

Re: Manually installed packages

Here you have the answer to your own question. Use apt-mark to mark the packages you want to keep and all "required" packages as "manual"ly installed. Then mark all other packages as "auto". Then let apt-get autoremove do its work. After that, use e.g. aptitude to remove remaining configuration

Re: Manually installed packages (was: Uninstalling Gnome)

On 11/29/16, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 29 Nov 2016 at 23:45:51 (+), Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> If I run `apt-mark showmanual', a list of packages is ouput that are >> supposed >> to have been manually installed on my system but that actually I don't at >> all >>

Re: Manually installed packages (was: Uninstalling Gnome)

On Tue 29 Nov 2016 at 23:45:51 (+), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > > > When I freshly installed Debian on my present system, I chose Gnome as my > > Desktop manager, then I switched to Openbox. To free space, now I want to > > remove all those

Manually installed packages (was: Uninstalling Gnome)

Rodolfo Medina writes: > When I freshly installed Debian on my present system, I chose Gnome as my > Desktop manager, then I switched to Openbox. To free space, now I want to > remove all those Gnome packages that I haven't used any more but am not sure > what of them

Re: apt-get trying to remove manually installed packages

Please post the full output of 'apt-get dist-upgrade' here, otherwise we can only guess. I waited a few days and did an apt-get update and dist-upgrade and the manually installed packages that were previously a problem were no longer going to be removed. So the problem is solved but I do

Re: apt-get trying to remove manually installed packages

to manual but it keeps wanting to remove it during dist-upgrade. How can I prevent apt from removing my manually installed packages? Please post the full output of 'apt-get dist-upgrade' here, otherwise we can only guess. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users

Re: apt-get trying to remove manually installed packages

James Robertson j...@mesrobertson.com wrote: JR I am running Sid. JR while doing a dist-upgrade apt-get wants to remove a number of packages that JR are manually installed. JR How can I prevent apt from removing my manually installed packages? i've made apt-get ignore packages

apt-get trying to remove manually installed packages

-upgrade. How can I prevent apt from removing my manually installed packages?